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"There is no need to pass any order on the interim application (filed by Swamy)," senior advocate P P Rao, appearing for the Centre told a bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly.
Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy has sought a direction to the CBI to initiate investigations against the senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister.
During the course of the hearing, CBI raised objections to the Centre's stand that the investigating agency will be looking into the documents placed by Swamy and file a status report before the court.
"CBI is autonomous and CBI is independent," CBI counsel and senior advocate K K Venugopal said, adding an impression has been created in the section of media that the agency was defending Chidamabram.
Swamy sought to make differentiation between his application filed before the apex court and the pending complaint before the Special Court saying that he was approaching the Supreme Court as the trial court did not have the jurisdiction to direct CBI probe in any given case.
He replied in affirmative to the Bench's question that he was seeking a direction for the CBI to probe the alleged role of Chidambaram on the documents placed by him.
The Centre, which has questioned the jurisdiction of the apex court on the monitoring of the probe after the filing of the two chargesheets in the case, said the 2G case should now be left to the trial court and the CBI.
"There is no reason to believe that CBI will not discharge its function," Rao told the Bench, while clarifying that he was only appearing for the Centre in the case.
Rao said he is not appearing for any individual.
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