nagpur in a setback to the petitioner the nagpur bench of bombay high court on thursday rejected his prayer to add central bureau of investigation cbi enforcement directorate ed and serious fraud investigation office sfio as respondents in the alleged multicrore irrigation scam pilswhile clarifying that the court would appoint these agencies when deemed fit a division bench comprising justices rv ghuge and shreeram modak adjourned the final hearing till march 13 the bench further directed petitioners and respondents to submit their contentions before february 29the court was hearing five pils first by ngo janmanch pil no 122016 through counsel firdos mirza and four others by social worker atul jagtap pil nos 141 142 172 1732016 through lawyer shreedhar purohitin his application jagtap stressed adding union home ministry principal income tax commissioner besides cbi ed and sfio as respondents for investigating the scam stating that he didnt trust the anticorruption bureau acb which is conducting open probe into the case defending his prayer jagtap said that after change of guard in the state ajit pawar who was named as a respondent in the pil assumed important charge of deputy chief minister in the maha vikas aghadi mva government led by cm uddhav thackeray and therefore the acb is directly working under himquoting acbs former director general dg sanjay barve the petitioner stated that he had elaborated on the role played by pawar and other accused officers in illegally granting mobilization advance to the contractors for projects while endorsing petitioners contentions the then dg had held that various irregularities were committed in majority of tenders with uncanny similarity terming the entire conspiracy as an attempt to defraud the government he claimed that contractors obtained tenders on the basis of forged documentsthe petitioner claimed that pawars personal secretary had written to then water resources department wrd directing it that circulars of not granting mobilization advance should be cancelled the former wrd minister had directed that all the disputed files should be directly sent to him without following due procedure as per rules 10 and 14 of rules of business the petitioner said jagtap pointed out that after change in the government acb also changed its stance and granted a clean chit to pawar through three affidavits two of which were filed by incumbent dg parambir singhin view of changing political equations and roles played by ncp to which pawar belongs i dont have faith in acb as its directly controlled by the government for neutral and impartial investigations its necessary to add cbi ed sfio and others to take over the investigations jagtap said