In the case of BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari of Asansol, West Bengal, the state government has suffered a setback due to the order of the Division Bench of the High Court. The Division Bench of Justice Jayamalya Bagchi ordered that the CID cannot investigate against Jitendra Tiwari in the coal smuggling case. Earlier, the CID had issued a notice to Jitendra Tiwari in the coal smuggling case and called him for questioning, against this notice of the CID, Jitendra Tiwari had filed a petition in the High Court, hearing on which Judge Rajshekhar Mantha of the single bench of the High Court The CID had stayed the notice, but the state government had challenged this decision in the division bench, but in this case the state government has been disappointed with the division bench as well.

A division bench of Justice Jayamalya Bagchi and Justice Apoorva Sinha has rejected the application of CID probe against former Asansol mayor and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jitendra Tiwari in the coal smuggling case. The division bench upheld the decision of a single bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha, which had stayed the parallel investigation of the CID. The division bench of the High Court has also said that when the CBI is probing the case, the CID need not conduct parallel investigation. The bench has asked to submit the affidavit within two weeks and the matter will be heard again at the end of four weeks of Durga Puja holiday.

It is worth mentioning that in the coal smuggling case, the CID had summoned Jitendra Tiwari, who was alleged that the CID has sent a notice to harass him in political bias. Against this he had filed a petition in the High Court, hearing on which the single bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha made it clear that when the central agencies are investigating, the CID need not investigate the matter separately. Now the Bench has also given the same decision.