NEW DELHI: Cautioning high courts, and itself, against routinely ordering CBI probes, Supreme Court on Thursday said courts should invoke their power to direct an inquiry by the central agency as a last resort in an exceptional situation. A bench of justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi set aside Allahabad high court’s order directing a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in the recruitment process for UP legislative council staff, saying the order was passed by HC on the basis of some doubt and assumptions. The bench also referred the matter back to the high court for a rehearing. “It is well settled that directions for CBI inquiry should not be ordered by the high courts or this court in a routine manner. The jurisprudence, as developed by this court through judgments qua th

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