NEW DELHI, Sept 25: The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the Madhya Pradesh Government and the CBI for the delay in suspending absconding police officials accused in a custodial death case and warned of contempt action. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan said the police officials have been absconding since April but have not been suspended. The top court was hearing a contempt plea of the mother of the 24-year-old victim alleging non-compliance of the top court’s May 15 order, transferring the investigation from Madhya Pradesh Police to the CBI. The local police was observed to have attempted a cover up besides influencing the probe into his death. The counsel for the CBI informed the apex court that the two officers were suspended on Wednesday. “Why yesterday

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