Coal Scam: Manmohan Singh among accused summoned by Court

New Delhi, March 11 (ANI): Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been summoned as an accused along with five others in a case linked to the coal scam that saw mining rights being assigned without any transparency to private firms. A special CBI court has also named Hindalco, its chairman KM Birla, and former coal secretary PC Parakh among six accused. They have all been asked to appear in court on April 8. Meanwhile, the lawyers refused to comment on the case. The Supreme Court last year scrapped nearly 214 coal blocks allocated by successive governments over the past two decades.