Coal Scam Cases

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Delhi High Court not to grant any stay on trials in coal block allocation scam cases and decide pending appeals of accused within four weeks to ensure their rights are not adversely affected. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana passed the orders after it was pointed out that in some coal scam cases the accused have moved the high court for relief while in some cases they have moved the top court. "No interim stay can be granted by the Delhi High Court. However, keeping in view the fact that non-stay of the trial may prejudice the rights of the accused, the high court is directed to decide such petitions preferably in four weeks," the bench ordered. The bench said it has not expressed any opinion on the merit of any case. Last month, the top court, while relaxing its nearly 12-year-old order mandating appeals arising from the orders of special court in coal block allocation scam cases to be filed in t

he judge held the CBI had failed to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that any "misrepresentation" was made by the accused

ED sleuths, probing coal-smuggling case in WB, recovered Rs 1 crore from the office of a Kolkata-based businessman after a marathon raid and search operation at his residence and office on Wednesday

The Central Bureau of Investigation has named 41 people, including senior officials of Eastern Coalfields Limited, in its charge sheet filed at a court in West Bengal's Asansol in a multi-crore coal pilferage scam. Among others who find mention in the charge sheet are private companies and unknown officials of the CISF and Railways, a CBI statement said. "They entered into a conspiracy and in pursuance of that, fraudulently misappropriated coal from the coal reserve of leasehold areas under the dominion of ECL, and also from the coal stock parked in the Railway sidings for sale and supply," it said. "It was further alleged that the said accused had obtained undue advantage in the form of huge and regular cash amount as bribe from said private person and facilitated misappropriation of coal from ECL leasehold area and thereby extended undue protection & patronage to the illegal coal syndicate," the statement added. The charge sheet was filed on Tuesday. Sleuths of the CBI have ...

SC on Monday appointed Arun Bhardwaj and Sanjay Bansal as special judges to conduct trials in the coal scam cases pending since 2014

Justice Suresh Kumar Kait also issued notice to the CBI and sought its response on the appeal filed by Ray, challenging his conviction and sentence in the case

There is effectively no strict eligibility criterion for participating in the auction. The companies/joint ventures should be registered in India.

The apex court has asked ED to file the next status report before December 4

3-judge bench said it will not revisit its 2014 order to exclude HC from the proceedings