Mumbai: The special CBI judge hearing the fake encounter cases of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajaptai, was transferred on Wednesday, following which the court adjourned the hearing on the Amit Shah’s discharge plea.

Special CBI Judge J.T. Utpat was transferred to Pune.

Incidentally, last week, Mr Utpat had reprimanded Shah's advocate for filing an exemption application without assigning any reason to it. “Every time you are giving this exemption application without assigning any reason,” he had said.

The court had on May 9 issued summonses to Mr Shah and other accused in the case.