NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a Madras High Court order transferring the probe into the murder of former Tamil Nadu BSP president K Armstrong to the CBI.

A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi was hearing an appeal filed by the Tamil Nadu government challenging the order of the High Court, which had also quashed the chargesheet filed by the state police in the case.

Earlier, the top court had on October 10 stayed the High Court order that quashed the chargesheet. It, however, did not stay the high court's direction transferring the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

On Wednesday, senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for Tamil Nadu police, refuted allegations that the state police refused to share the records of the case with the

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