The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Bengal government to file a short note on its plea challenging Calcutta High Court’s order of CBI probes into alleged incidents of murder and rape following the publication of Assembly poll results on May 2.

The Supreme Court bench of Justice Vineet Saran and Justice Aniruddha Bose passed the directive.

Justice Saran told senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who appeared for the Bengal government, that a short note in the form of a chart highlighting the objections raised by the state on the high court directions could be placed before the bench for consideration.

Accordingly, the court adjourned the matter to September 20.

The high court had ordered the CBI probes based on a report submitted by the NHRC.

Sibal told the court in his brief oral submission that the NHRC panel had several members who owed allegiance to the BJP. It was more of a “BJP Committee”, he said.