PRAYAGRAJ, July 17 -- The Allahabad high court has transferred the probe into an alleged Rs.6.33 crore real estate fraud case involving former MLC Haji Iqbal alias Bala from the UP Special Task Force to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO).

In its July 16 order, the bench comprising Justice Chandra Dhari Singh and Justice Lakshmi Kant Shukla held that once a large-scale corporate fraud is already under investigation by the SFIO, a parallel investigation by the state police into substantially the same corporate network should ordinarily be avoided.

While refusing to quash the FIR lodged by an investor, the court disposed of the writ petition filed by Haji Iqbal and directed that the investigation against the petitioner be transf...