New Delhi: A special court summoned former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary PC Parakh, along with few others in a coal block allocation case on Wednesday.
The coal scam involved mining rights being given to firms "without any transparency".
Here is the timeline of the case:
October 2013: CBI registers FIR against KM Birla, PC Parakh and others on charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption in the allocation of coal blocks.
August 28, 2014: CBI files closure report in the case. The investigation team said that the evidence collected during probe did not substantiate the allegations levelled against the people named in the FIR.
October 21: CBI files revised closure report in the case.
December 16: Court rejects closure report, orders further probe and to record statements of the former prime minister who was then holding coal ministry portfolio.
January 2015: Manmohan Singh questioned by CBI in relation to the case.
January 27: CBI files progress report of investigation.
February 19: CBI files final report in the case.
March 11: Court summons Manmohan Singh, Birla, Parakh, Hindalco company, its officials Shubendu Amitabh and D. Bhatt acharya in the case for April 8.
