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Shirin Dalvi case: Maharashtra govt to transfer all cases to State CID
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Mumbai, Maharashtra

The Maharashtra government has transferred investigations into the cases arising from all the five FIRs filed against Urdu newspaper editor Shirin Dalvi to the State CID.

Pending the hearing, the Bombay High Court has stayed any coercive action against Dalvi.

Dalvi has filed a petition seeking quashing of the cases lodged against her and pending this, a stay on her arrest and the clubbing of all the cases against her.

The case comes up for quashing on April 15.