India News: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded that a special investigation team (SIT) probe alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks, saying the UPA would not allow the CBI to function independently.

Reacting to a newspaper report that claimed that the UPA government "vetted" the coal blocks allocations probe status report before it was submitted to the Supreme Court, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said this was a "very serious matter".