India, Dec. 17 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment on a petition seeking a CBI probe against NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, his daughter and MP Supriya Sule, and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar for allegedly illegally granting permissions to construct a hill station at Lavasa in Pune district in 1994.

The petition, filed by advocate and agriculturist Nanasaheb Vasantrao Jadhav, alleges that the private hill station project was sanctioned by the state government without due consideration of its socio-economic impact on surrounding villages and in violation of norms. During the hearing, Jadhav submitted that the project has remained unresolved for over a decade, during which farmers in the affected areas lost their liv...