A special CBI court in Mumbai on Monday rejected a plea seeking to call Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani as a witness in a 1989 case related to an alleged attempt to murder businessman Nusli Wadia.

Ivan Sequeira, one of the accused in the more than 33-year-old case, had moved the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court last year seeking to examine Mukesh Ambani as a witness. The central agency, probing the case, had opposed the plea.