Coal scam: Court fix July 10 for consideration of CBI's report

A special court would consider next month the supplementary final report filed by CBI in connection with a coal scam case allegedly involving Vikash Metal and Power Limited (VMPL) and others.
The court said it needed some time to go through the report filed by the CBI before passing any order and posted the matter for July 10.
"Certain clarification has been sought (from CBI). Put up for July 10," Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar said.
Earlier, the court had said that it would consider the supplementary final report only after some finality was arrived at on the issue of according sanction to prosecute government servants by the competent authority.

CBI had filed the supplementary final report on April 7 in pursuance to an order passed in October last year in which the court had refused to accept the closure report and had directed the agency to further probe the case.
The case pertains to alleged irregularities in allocation of Moira and Madhujore (North and South) coal blocks in West Bengal to VMPL.
The case allegedly involves VMPL and its officials in which they are accused of making false claims relating to land allocation to get undue advantage in coal block allocation.
The FIR in the case was registered in September 2012. CBI, however, had later filed a closure report saying the charges against VMPL or its directors or even against public servants could not be substantiated during its probe.