Cuttack, Oct. 5: Police have decided to quiz five CBI officers for allegedly trespassing at the residence of Justice C.R. Dash, a serving judge of Orissa High Court.

Official sources said the decision was taken after receiving details of the CBI team members, who landed up at Justice Dash's residence in the early hours of September 20 to carry out raid after a corruption FIR had been registered against retired judge I.M. Qudussi, who used to reside at the same address some seven years ago.

Though Cantonment police station had registered a case of trespassing, inspector in-charge Biswajit Mohanty, the investigating officer in the case, could not proceed further as it had no details on the CBI team.

On September 21, Mohanty sought the details, which he received from the CBI police superintendent office in Bhubaneswar yesterday.

'The information on the CBI team has been received. Investigation will proceed accordingly,' Cuttack deputy commissioner of police Akhileswar Singh told The Telegraph today.

The information indicated that five officers of the CBI's anti-corruption branch had reached ISO-4, a residential bungalow for Orissa High Court judges at Gopabandhu Marg in Cuttack.

They were on the trail of retired judge I.M. Qudussi, who has been accused of assuring a private medical college of a favourable settlement in the Supreme Court in a case dealing with the institute's debarment. 'But, the information sheet received is silent on what happened when the team was at ISO-4,' Singh said.

Cantonment police station had since updated the trespassing case by naming the five CBI officers. 'Investigation will proceed according to the law. All the five officers will be issued show-cause notices,' police commissioner Y.B. Khurania said.

'They may be called to the police station to give their statements or the investigating officer may go to the CBI office in Bhubaneswar to get their statements,' Khurania said.

While the police have registered a trespassing case against the CBI officers, Orissa High Court has admitted a PIL seeking judicial inquiry into the incident.

The PIL, filed by the Orissa High Court Bar Association, sought the court's direction for a judicial inquiry 'to ascertain the facts, circumstances and cause behind the deplorable and high handed conduct of the CBI officials' at ISO-4.

The petition expects direction for an inquiry into the incident 'by a judicial commission headed by a sitting judge of Orissa High Court or a retired judge of the Supreme Court'.

Acting on it, the high court on September 22 issued notices to the Union home ministry secretary and the CBI director-general seeking their responses to the PIL.#The PIL has been posted to October 16 for hearing along with the replies of the respondents.