NEW DELHI, July 12: Indian detectives probing the 1986 Bofors arms scandal involving the Britain-based billionaire Hinduja brothers won a legal victory on Friday when the Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s order that the trial be halted, a report said.

The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said a three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice B. N. Kirpal, overturned a Delhi High Court order that charges against the brothers be quashed.

The Hinduja brothers had asked the Delhi High Court to scrap the charge sheet on the grounds that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had ignored procedures.—AFP