The Bombay High Court today allowed the plea of Maharashtra government to hand over the probe to CID into the FIRs registered against the Editor of Urdu daily Shirin Dalvi who is at the centre of a row over publishing the cover of French magazine Charlie Hebdo that featured a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad.

A bench of Justices Ranjit More and Anuja Prabhudessai allowed an application filed by the government seeking to transfer the investigations from five different police stations to CID.