Court calls Cong MP in coalgate case
Special
CBI judge Madhu Jain summoned Darda, his son Devendra, Nagpur-based AMR
Iron and Steel Pvt Ltd and its director Manoj Jayaswal on May 23 in a
case lodged against them for allegedly acquiring coal blocks
fraudulently.
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DELHI: A trial court on Wednesday summoned Congress's Rajya Sabha
member Vijay Darda and three others as accused in a coal block scam case
after taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed against them by the
CBI.
Special CBI judge Madhu Jain summoned Darda, his son Devendra, Nagpur-based AMR Iron and Steel Pvt Ltd and its director Manoj Jayaswal on May 23 in a case lodged against them for allegedly acquiring coal blocks fraudulently. The accused have been chargesheeted under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) read with section 420 (cheating) of the IPC and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Meanwhile, the CBI sought more time to file its reply on a plea by AMR seeking court monitoring of the ongoing CBI probe in the case. The agency told the court that it had made corrections in the list of documents filed along with the chargesheet. In its plea filed through advocate Vijay Aggarwal, AMR had claimed that the CBI had not probed the matter properly and the chargesheet was filed on the basis of a "biased investigation".
The CBI, in its FIR lodged earlier, had named AMR and its directors Manoj Jayaswal, Arvind Kumar Jayaswal, Ramesh Jayaswal and Devendra Darda, along with unnamed officials of the coal ministry and other unidentified people as accused in the case. As regards AMR, the CBI had claimed in its FIR that the firm, in its application form seeking allocation of coal blocks, had "fraudulently" concealed the fact that its group companies had previously been allocated five blocks.
Detailing the allocation of coal blocks to AMR, the agency had said the coal ministry had invited applications for allocation of some coal blocks, including the Bander coal block in Maharashtra having coal reserves of 126.105 million metric tonnes (MMT). The CBI had said that the 36th screening committee, which was headed by the then coal secretary, after concluding its deliberations on July 3, 2008, recommended allocation of the Bander block jointly to J K Cement Ltd, Century Textiles and Industries Ltd and AMR for their proposed plants in Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Special CBI judge Madhu Jain summoned Darda, his son Devendra, Nagpur-based AMR Iron and Steel Pvt Ltd and its director Manoj Jayaswal on May 23 in a case lodged against them for allegedly acquiring coal blocks fraudulently. The accused have been chargesheeted under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) read with section 420 (cheating) of the IPC and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Meanwhile, the CBI sought more time to file its reply on a plea by AMR seeking court monitoring of the ongoing CBI probe in the case. The agency told the court that it had made corrections in the list of documents filed along with the chargesheet. In its plea filed through advocate Vijay Aggarwal, AMR had claimed that the CBI had not probed the matter properly and the chargesheet was filed on the basis of a "biased investigation".
The CBI, in its FIR lodged earlier, had named AMR and its directors Manoj Jayaswal, Arvind Kumar Jayaswal, Ramesh Jayaswal and Devendra Darda, along with unnamed officials of the coal ministry and other unidentified people as accused in the case. As regards AMR, the CBI had claimed in its FIR that the firm, in its application form seeking allocation of coal blocks, had "fraudulently" concealed the fact that its group companies had previously been allocated five blocks.
Detailing the allocation of coal blocks to AMR, the agency had said the coal ministry had invited applications for allocation of some coal blocks, including the Bander coal block in Maharashtra having coal reserves of 126.105 million metric tonnes (MMT). The CBI had said that the 36th screening committee, which was headed by the then coal secretary, after concluding its deliberations on July 3, 2008, recommended allocation of the Bander block jointly to J K Cement Ltd, Century Textiles and Industries Ltd and AMR for their proposed plants in Karnataka and Maharashtra.
SHYAM KISHOR SINGH
PGDM 1st year
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