Supreme Court: Why the hurry to close Birla case in the coal block allocation scam?

The court made the observation after the investigating officer (IO) informed the court that the original minutes of a meeting of the screening committee, in which Birla-owned Hindalco’s application seeking allocation of coal blocks was dealt with, were “missing”.

The court was told by the CBI that they had already lodged a PE (preliminary enquiry) regarding the missing documents. “I have nothing to do with the PE. What was the hurry to close this case? On what basis have you drawn such a conclusion,” asked special CBI judge Bharat Parashar.

The court asked, “What kind of investigation have you done? What was your supervisory officer doing? Was he only forwarding the documents to the court? Bring the police file and call your supervisory officer to the court now.”