PTI
 
New Delhi, Aug 21: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to cancel bail granted to Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi, in a disproportionate assets case and dismissed two public interest litigations seeking a change of the special judge in Patna trying the case.

The three-member bench of the court by a majority verdict of 2:1 dismissed the two PILs filed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Kumar Modi and Janata Dal (United) leader Rajeev Ranjan Singh Lallan, in which they have also challenged the quashing of income tax cases against the railway minister and his wife.

The judgement delivered by Justices KG Balakrishnan and AR Lakshmanan said that the PIL was not maintainable.

In a dissenting judgement, Justice S H Kapadia said the PIL was maintainable.

Justice Kapadia said that the Income Tax Department should have filed an appeal against the IT Appellate Tribunal order and he said the procedure adopted for the appointment of additional district judge Munni Lal Paswan as special judge to try disproportionate assets case was not proper.