India, March 28 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking registration of a first information report (FIR) and a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani over alleged illegal extraction of gas from wells belonging to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.

The petition was filed by Jitendra Maru with "a tainted motive" and it represented "an abuse of the process of the court", a division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Suman Shyam said.

"A petition like this causes serious harm to the reputation and business prospects of any ...