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Court junks CBI report on coal block allocation

Court observes ministry of coal abused their positions and acted in an arbitrary manner
NEW DELHI: A special CBI court on Monday observed that the entire process of allocation of coal blocks was done in a brazen fashion and officials of the ministry of coal abused their positions and acted in an arbitrary and illegal manner.
The observed this while refusing to accept CBI’s closure report in a coal blocks allocation scam case in which it summoned as accused former coal secretary H.C. Gupta, the then joint secretary K.S. Kropha, and the then director CA-I Section of ministry of coal K.C. Samaria.
The court said that it is not happy with the way of scrutinising the applications of companies applied for the coal blocks.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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