ahmedabad ten of the nineteen accused in the haren pandya murder case will move the supreme court challenging the imposition of pota against them the cbi in a written appeal before the special pota court judge sonia gokani on thursday defence lawyers hn jhala and salim hakim said that prima facie the cbi had been partisan in applying pota against a particular community they alleged that accused in cases like the gulbarg society massacre have not been penalised in similar fashion they also told the court the accused would now challenge the imposition of the antiterror act in the apex court under article 14 of the constitution the pota court which was to frame charges against the accused on thursday in response to the appeal granted time till november 21 for the supreme court appeal though the defence counsel had sought 30 days to challenge the invocation of pota against the ten accused the court only allowed a 15day period jhala sought time to challenge an earlier order of the designated court which had rejected his application seeking lifting of pota against the accused meanwhile special public prosecutor in the case j m panchal appearing behalf of cbi told tnn that the prosecution has no objection if reasonable time is granted to the applicants to approach the apex court jhala also submitted to the court the defence will have to obtain certified copies of fir in the best bakery naroda patia and gulbarg society massacres which took place during postgodhra communal carnage year the court had allowed invocation pota on june 2 the investigation been handed over to the cbi on the the former gujarat home minister shot down in front of law garden march 26 following the defence counsels appeal to revoke pota the court on october 18 had rejected the application made by 10 accused in the case court then observed that there was a prima facie case to justify levy of pota on the accused