In its affidavit filed in October, the investigating agency said that while charges are yet to be framed in 287 cases, 4 FIRs have been quashed by the high court.
The SC said the "messy state of affairs" has "the propensity of unnecessarily shaking confidence of people in police system".
The sessions court will continue hearing the revision application on Tuesday, special public prosecutor Pradip Gharat said. Goswami's lawyer Parkar said after the revision plea is heard, the court will take up the bail plea for hearing.
The pleas, which were earlier heard by a bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Jyoti Singh, have now been transferred to a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup Jairam Bhambhani through an administrative order of January 28.
During the hearing, CBI said charges against Asthana are serious and the agency was investigating the matter and is likely to add more offences in the FIR.
In a letter to the prime minister, the MP from Pilibhit in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh also asked him to take action against Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra 'Teni' for the violence in Lakhmipur Kheri without taking his name.
The bench expressed displeasure over the trend of filing of sedition cases just after senior advocate F S Nariman made opening submissions on behalf of Singh, saying 'the gentleman has served as the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) and was acting as the Director of the Police Academy and now the proceedings under section 124A (sedition) of the IPC have been initiated against him'.
The crime branch of Mumbai Police, which is probing the case, had sought the proclamation, saying that the Indian Police Service officer could not be traced even after the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against him.
The remarks came by a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy which quashed an FIR lodged by the parents of the girl, who had married a boy of her choice against the wishes of elders, at Belgavai district of Karnataka.
A division bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik said they will pass the order at the earliest, without giving any date.
'The cases have not reduced because the prosecution has found some other way to stop people from using their right to free speech.'
She is accused of having a role in illegal exhumation of bodies of some victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Kundra and Thorpe were arrested last month and remanded initially to police custody, and subsequently to judicial custody.
An FIR lodged at the police station alleged that the actor had used dialogues like 'Marbo ekhane lash porbe shoshane' (Will hit you here and the body will land in the crematorium) and 'Ek chobole chobi' (A snakebite will turn you into a photograph, meaning will kill you) at a rally after joining the BJP on March 7. The complainant alleged that these dialogues caused post-poll violence in the state.
The high court directed the central government counsel to file a statement in response to the plea and listed the matter for hearing after two weeks.
'Section 153A is not meant to protect fragile sentiments of the majority Hindu community who choose to get offended by slogans celebrating the success of the Pakistani cricket team.'
Without giving any interim protection, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation for January 18 on disgraced former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore's petitions seeking anticipatory bail in FIRs containing serious criminal charges.
The Jharkhand high court on Friday quashed the arrest warrants issued by a Bokaro court against Bharatiya Janata Party leader Giriraj Singh who is accused of making hate speech during poll meetings.
The CM contended that the raids on his residence and other premises were conducted with 'mala fide intentions and political vendetta' by the CBI.
'Suppose you are sitting abroad and taking legal recourse through power of attorney then what happens. If that is so then you will come to India if the court rules in your favour, we don't know what you have in mind'
The Supreme Court on Wednesday voiced concern over the damage to public property during agitations, saying the country cannot be held to ransom and that it will lay down parameters for fixing accountability for the losses.
It is a 'very disturbing' scenario in Maharashtra where former police commissioner Param Bir Singh does not have faith in his own force and the state government has no faith in the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that West Bengal's power to withhold consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation is not absolute and the probe agency is entitled to carry out investigations that are being carried out against Central government employees or have a pan-India impact.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed controversial Marxist leader M M Mani's plea for quashing the direction for further investigations into his alleged public statement about the party having 30 years ago, systematically annihilated political opponents in Idduki district.
'I was shocked by the kidnapping episode. I could have lost my life.'
Gujarat high court on Tuesday said there is prima facie case of sedition against Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel, while refusing to quash the FIR filed against him in Surat.
The ministry of defence on Friday filed an intervening application in the Bombay high court opposing the petition filed by former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan seeking to quash the FIR lodged against him by CBI in the Adarsh housing society scam.
The Kerala government on Friday decided to recommend a judicial inquiry against central probe agencies, including the Enforcement Directorate, which are investigating the gold and dollar smuggling cases.
The top court directed the Maharashtra government to place before it the material which was collected during the investigation against Navlakha and placed before the high court in a sealed cover.
Granting them bail, Justice NK Balakrishnan said the two accused should execute a bond for Rs 1 crore each, besides two Indian sureties for the like amount
A Delhi court on Saturday cleared decks for the prosecution of hotelier S P Gupta by allowing the city government to withdraw its earlier plea to seek the quashing of three FIRs against him, allegedly at the behest of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. "The court is of the considered view that nothing precludes prosecution from withdrawing its earlier plea for withdrawal of prosecution," said Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Yaduvanshi.
The Delhi high court on Friday asked the city police to file a status report on its probe into the circumstances leading to death of Constable Subhash Tomar, who was allegedly assaulted by eight youth protesters during the anti-rape stir.
Singh, who had accused the then Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh of corruption, has alleged frame up in criminal cases.
Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha, journalists with HW News Network, were produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Gomati district Shubhra Nath, who granted them bail on bail bonds of Rs 7,500.
Relieved by the Karnataka high court order quashing the FIR against him in an illegal mining case, B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday pinned hopes on the Bharatiya Janata Party central leadership to render "justice" to him, indicating a renewed bid for his reinstatement as chief minister.
12 properties of former Mumbai city Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family were on Friday attached by the Mumbai police, three days after lodging an FIR against them for possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
With the high court rejecting his plea to quash the FIRs against him last week, police had severed a notice to Mani asking him to appear at the DySP office at Thodpouzha on Monday
The Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that its judgement on former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was only in Taj Corridor case and it did not go into other aspects including merits of allegation of disproportionate assets amassed by the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo.
Adarsh Society's members have approached the defence ministry and the Central Bureau of Investigation, seeking quashing of the FIR filed in the alleged multi-crore scam in the housing society, in the wake of a judicial probe of the Maharashtra government which had stated that the land belonged to the state and not the defence forces.
In a setback to efforts by Italy to secure release of its two marines charged with murder of two Indian fishermen, the Kerala high court on Tuesday turned down its plea for quashing an FIR against them, holding that they were liable to penal jurisdiction of Indian courts.
