The Bombay high court on Friday disposed of a public interest litigation (PIL), which was filed in 2010 seeking the court’s monitoring in the investigation in the alleged disproportionate assets of Congress leader Kripashankar Singh.

Senior counsel Mihir Desai, on behalf of the petitioner, requested the division bench of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice Revati Mohite-Dere to dispose of the petition because the purpose of the petition was served. He told the court “The petition was filed seeking investigation into the alleged assets of a politician (Kripashankar Singh) disproportionate to his known source of income and requesting the court to monitor the investigation. Now investigation into this matter is complete and a chargesheet has also been filed in the case, so there is no need to keep this PIL pending and hence it should be disposed off.”

Advocate Desai also told the court that this matter had reached the Supreme Court and now the apex court had also stopped monitoring the case and left it on the trial court to consider supplying a report to the activist on whose PIL the probe was ordered.

After hearing arguments the court disposed of the petition. The high court had, in February 2012, directed the city police commissioner to prosecute Kripashankar for “criminal misconduct” under the Prevention of Corruption Act, while hearing a PIL filed by activist Sanjay Tiwari, who alleged the Congress leader had amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.

In the petition, Mr Tiwari claimed that Kripashankar had been close to former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, currently in jail for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore hawala scam.

He alleged that several monetary transactions had taken place between them. Kripashankar’s son Narendra Mohan is married to Ankita, daughter of Kamlesh Singh, who was a minister in the Koda Cabinet and is now in jail in connection with the hawala scam. Ankita had received Rs1.75 crore in her account from Kamlesh, the PIL said, adding that there were huge transactions from the bank accounts of Kripashankar’s wife Malti Devi too.