 "Coalscam: Court to consider charge sheet against Koda on Jan 20")
A special court today fixed January 20 for considering CBI's charge sheet filed against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former Chief Secretary Ashok Kumar Basu, ex-Coal Secretary H C Gupta and five others in a coal blocks allocation scam case.
"Certain clarifications have been sought from the senior public prosecutor. Put up for consideration on January 20," Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar said.
The court was hearing the matter in which CBI had filed a charge sheet against Koda, Basu, Gupta, two serving public servants, Basant Kumar Bhattacharya and Bipin Bihari Singh, director of Kolkata-based company Vini Iron Steel and Udyog Ltd, Vaibhav Tulsyan, and Vijay Joshi as accused.
The accused have been named in the charge sheet for offences punishable under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating) of the IPC and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The case pertains to allocation of coal blocks to Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Ltd in Jharkhand's Rajhara town in which its directors and unknown public servants of the Coal Ministry, the Jharkhand government and others were made accused in the FIR lodged by CBI in September 2012.
The charge sheet was filed two months after the court had returned CBI's final report in the matter, observing that the agency had failed to give any plausible explanation to its queries.
"Certain clarifications have been sought from the senior public prosecutor. Put up for consideration on January 20," Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar said.
The court was hearing the matter in which CBI had filed a charge sheet against Koda, Basu, Gupta, two serving public servants, Basant Kumar Bhattacharya and Bipin Bihari Singh, director of Kolkata-based company Vini Iron Steel and Udyog Ltd, Vaibhav Tulsyan, and Vijay Joshi as accused.
The accused have been named in the charge sheet for offences punishable under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating) of the IPC and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The case pertains to allocation of coal blocks to Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Ltd in Jharkhand's Rajhara town in which its directors and unknown public servants of the Coal Ministry, the Jharkhand government and others were made accused in the FIR lodged by CBI in September 2012.
The charge sheet was filed two months after the court had returned CBI's final report in the matter, observing that the agency had failed to give any plausible explanation to its queries.
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