The Centre and the Election Commission were asked today by the Delhi High Court to respond to a plea for court-monitored probe by an SIT or the CBI into the funds allegedly received by the Congress party and the BJP from UK-based Vedanta Resources and Indian PSUs. "Let respondents one (Ministry of Home Affairs) and two (Election Commission) file their reply within two weeks. List this matter after three weeks on February 4," said a bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Indermeet Kaur.

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