NEW DELHI: In a relief for Mayawati, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea seeking review of its order quashing disproportionate assets case against former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati.

A bench of justices P Sathasivam and Dipak Misra, which had clarified that CBI is free to probe the BSP supremo during an earlier hearing on the case, passed an order clarifying the earlier judgement.

While reserving its verdict on May 1, the bench had said that the FIR in the DA case was quashed because the agency proceeded against her without properly understanding its orders which were confined to Taj Corridor case. That judgement had not taken away CBI’s power to proceed against her in a separate DA case, the court had said.

During the hearing on review petition, filed by a UP resident, the CBI was reluctant to take a stand on the issue.

The review petition was filed by Kamlesh Verma who was an intervener in the case filed by Mayawati in the apex court for quashing the DA case against her.

Senior advocate Shanti Bhushan, appearing for Verma, had pleaded with the court to pass order on review to bring accused to the book.

The Supreme Court had on July 6 quashed the nine-year-long disproportionate assets case against her and had pulled up the CBI for exceeding its jurisdiction by lodging an FIR against her without any direction from it.

The apex court had said the DA case against Mayawati was “unwarranted” and that the agency proceeded against her without properly understanding its orders which were confined to Taj Corridor case relating to the release of Rs 17 crore by UP government allegedly without sanction.