<p>The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Madras High Court order for a CBI probe against police and district officials for firing at anti-Sterlite protesters in Tamil Nadu in May this year.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Sanjay Kishan Kaul issued a notice to the CBI on a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government challenging the high court order.</p>.<p>"We have to see the other side," said the bench, also comprising Justice S K Kaul, when senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi sought the stay, contending that the high court went on to order the probe against top officers of district administration and the police.</p>.<p>The police firing had taken place in Tuticorin district during the anti-Sterlite protests, which claimed 13 lives on May 22 and 23.</p>.<p>The high court on August 14 had transferred to the CBI the probe into the police firing and directed the agency to conclude the investigation in four months.</p>.<p>It had also quashed an order detaining six members of the 'Makkal Adhikaram,' a Left outfit accused of inciting violence in the district.</p>.<p>On May 22, after the Tuticorin district collectorate was picketed to seek the closure of copper plant of Sterlite, a unit of the Vedanta group over pollution concerns, large-scale violence had followed.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the Madras High Court order for a CBI probe against police and district officials for firing at anti-Sterlite protesters in Tamil Nadu in May this year.</p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Sanjay Kishan Kaul issued a notice to the CBI on a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government challenging the high court order.</p>.<p>"We have to see the other side," said the bench, also comprising Justice S K Kaul, when senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi sought the stay, contending that the high court went on to order the probe against top officers of district administration and the police.</p>.<p>The police firing had taken place in Tuticorin district during the anti-Sterlite protests, which claimed 13 lives on May 22 and 23.</p>.<p>The high court on August 14 had transferred to the CBI the probe into the police firing and directed the agency to conclude the investigation in four months.</p>.<p>It had also quashed an order detaining six members of the 'Makkal Adhikaram,' a Left outfit accused of inciting violence in the district.</p>.<p>On May 22, after the Tuticorin district collectorate was picketed to seek the closure of copper plant of Sterlite, a unit of the Vedanta group over pollution concerns, large-scale violence had followed.</p>