Coal Block Scam

The Supreme Court on Wednesday closed a criminal case against former prime minister Manmohan Singh in a coal block allocation case while setting aside a summoning order passed against him. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana accepted the CBI's closure report giving a clean chit to the former PM and others. The top court said there was no reason for the trial court judge to turn down closure reports of CBI and take cognisance. "Due to unfortunate demise of the appellant, this appeal could be disposed of as infructuous. But with a view to consider the aspect of ld. spl. judge taking cognisance and summoning the appellant, we have gone through both closure reports filed by CBI. "Having regard to the relevant parameters consistently laid down by this court on acceptance of reports of investigating agency, we are satisfied that there was no reason for ld. judge to turn down closure reports of CBI and take cognisance. We allow the appeal

A Delhi court on Monday awarded three-year jail term to former Coal Secretary H C Gupta in a coal scam case related to irregularities in allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra.

The agency alleged "a pecuniary benefit of Rs 7 cr was obtained by accused Binay Prakash by offering to sell the shares of the firm on premium, after allocation of the coal block to Domco Pvt Ltd"

The court later granted bail to all the accused persons after they appeared before it in pursuance to the summons.

Top court bench says it needs to go through the case files and listed the matter for hearing on October 27.

Case pertains to allocation of Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block in Jharkhand

Jindal to appear in court with four others and JSPL on Sept 4

Coal Secy H C Gupta, jont secy K S Kropha held guilty for irregularities in coal allotment to KSSPL

Case was related to irregularities in allocation of Kesla North coal block in Chhattisgarh to the firm