The court took note of the affidavit filed by CBI director SK Jaiswal in which he said that the CBI’s functioning as an investigating agency was being hampered with eight states having withdrawn their general consent, forcing the agency to approach states to get consent on a case-to-case basis. The CBI director told the court that these eight states consented in less than 18% of cases out of 150 requests made by the agency from 2018 to June, 2021.The court took note of the affidavit filed by CBI director SK Jaiswal in which he said that the CBI’s functioning as an investigating agency was being hampered with eight states having withdrawn their general consent, forcing the agency to approach states to get consent on a case-to-case basis. The CBI director told the court that these eight states consented in less than 18% of cases out of 150 requests made by the agency from 2018 to June, 2021.