TV9 News: CBI To Submit Coal Scam Status Report 'Tomorrow' in Supreme Court
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TV9 News: CBI To Submit Coal Scam Status Report 'Tomorrow'...(Tuesday,22nd,October)..,
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The Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI, which is probing the coal scam, will file its status report before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. According to CBI sources, the status report is likely to contain the details of latest FIRs filed against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former Coal Secretary PC Parakh and the "competent authority" named by the CBI in its investigation.
The report will also inform the court about the investigation done till October 18, sources said.
In a case registered last week, the agency said that two coal blocks in Odisha were illicitly granted in 2005 by Mr Parakh to Hindalco, an aluminium-making company owned by Mr Birla. The agency says that Mr Parakh's decision was endorsed by "the competent authority."
Former Coal Secretary PC Parakh, who has been named in the FIR, has said its Dr Manmohan Singh. "Normally competent authority in respect to any government department is the minister in-charge and at that point of it was the Prime Minister," Mr Parakh told NDTV.
The CBI has said that the Prime Minister's Office has not been cleared yet in the probe of how under-priced coal licenses were given away without a transparent bidding process.
On Tuesday, the CBI filed the FIR - the first step towards formal charges - that accused Mr Parakh of conspiring with Mr Birla to land two coal blocks in Odisha through "undue favours." Both Mr Birla and Mr Parakh have denied the charges.
Mr Parakh has said that as Coal Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh took the final decision on the allotments. He has asked the CBI to explain why the PM has not been named as an alleged co-conspirator. The CBI says that during initial rounds of questioning, Mr Parakh was not able to offer a satisfactory explanation for his actions, and that he did not implicate the Prime Minister.
The Supreme Court is monitoring the probe in the coal block allocation scam to "restore the larger public interest". The court is scrutinising coal block allocation since 1993 on three PILs seeking cancellation of blocks on the ground that rules were flouted in giving away the natural resources and that certain companies were favoured in this process.
As per the directions of the Supreme Court CBI has been filing status reports periodically and these reports will not be shared even with the lawyer appearing for CBI.
In a recent hearing, Supreme Court had issued notices to seven coal mining states-- Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal-- to explain allocation policies adopted by them by October 29.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI, which is probing the coal scam, will file its status report before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. According to CBI sources, the status report is likely to contain the details of latest FIRs filed against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former Coal Secretary PC Parakh and the "competent authority" named by the CBI in its investigation.
The report will also inform the court about the investigation done till October 18, sources said.
In a case registered last week, the agency said that two coal blocks in Odisha were illicitly granted in 2005 by Mr Parakh to Hindalco, an aluminium-making company owned by Mr Birla. The agency says that Mr Parakh's decision was endorsed by "the competent authority."
Former Coal Secretary PC Parakh, who has been named in the FIR, has said its Dr Manmohan Singh. "Normally competent authority in respect to any government department is the minister in-charge and at that point of it was the Prime Minister," Mr Parakh told NDTV.
The CBI has said that the Prime Minister's Office has not been cleared yet in the probe of how under-priced coal licenses were given away without a transparent bidding process.
On Tuesday, the CBI filed the FIR - the first step towards formal charges - that accused Mr Parakh of conspiring with Mr Birla to land two coal blocks in Odisha through "undue favours." Both Mr Birla and Mr Parakh have denied the charges.
Mr Parakh has said that as Coal Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh took the final decision on the allotments. He has asked the CBI to explain why the PM has not been named as an alleged co-conspirator. The CBI says that during initial rounds of questioning, Mr Parakh was not able to offer a satisfactory explanation for his actions, and that he did not implicate the Prime Minister.
The Supreme Court is monitoring the probe in the coal block allocation scam to "restore the larger public interest". The court is scrutinising coal block allocation since 1993 on three PILs seeking cancellation of blocks on the ground that rules were flouted in giving away the natural resources and that certain companies were favoured in this process.
As per the directions of the Supreme Court CBI has been filing status reports periodically and these reports will not be shared even with the lawyer appearing for CBI.
In a recent hearing, Supreme Court had issued notices to seven coal mining states-- Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal-- to explain allocation policies adopted by them by October 29.