The CBI and the Enforcement Directorate are likely to file fresh status report before the Supreme Court on Thursday on their probe in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

The investigating agencies are expected to brief a bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly on the findings made by them after July 6 when the last status report was placed before the court.

During the last hearing on August 24, the CBI had informed the court that it has completed its probe in the multi-crore scam in which charge sheet has been filed by it against 17 persons including former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozi. It had said that a third charge sheet would be filed by September 15.

The court has been monitoring the probe on a plea of an NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, and Janata Party President Mr Subramanian Swamy on whose petition it had directed the CBI probe the scam.

In the last status report filed on July 6, the CBI had informed the court that it is also probing the role of Union Textile Minister Mr Dayanidhi Maran in alleged forcing of the promoter of a Chennai-based telecom company Aircel to sell his shares to a Malaysian firm in lieu of illegal gratification to him in 2006.

The Minister, however, denied all such allegations.

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