Lawstreet Journal

Coal Scam Case Update: SC Declines To Stay The Investigation Of CBI

Lawstreet Journal 11 Feb 2020 3:32am

Image courtesy: Lawstreet Journal Judiciary Coal Scam Case Update: SC Declines To Stay The Investigation Of CBI

The Supreme Court declined to grant a stay on the investigation which is being administered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged embroilment of some officials from the Office of Prime Minister (PMO) in the Coal Scam case against Jindal Steel. Jindal Steel was stewarded by Advocate Jayant Mohan in fresh (for admission) in criminal cases heard by the Chief Justice S.A Bobde, Justices B.R Gavi and Surya Kant.

In the year of 2015, there was a criticism made by a Special Court to the of Prime Minister during the regime of United Progressive Alliance (UPA) mentioning that it didn't appear the functioning of PMO was satisfactory in the allocation of coal block. The observation was related to the case of Nagpur based Grace Industries Limited (GIL) in which it directed the CBI to probe into the involvement of public officials and officials from the company. The CBI Special Judge said, "In these circumstances, I am constrained to observe that even the working of the officers of PMO also does not appear to be above board. When there was a specific observation by the Minister of State for Coal (Rao) regarding the case of M/s GIL, then at least the officers in PMO ought to have highlighted the said fact before the file”  submitted to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was holding the position of Coal Minister at that time. The forty-page order mentions the obvious extent to which Ministry of Coal (MOC) officers went into, to favour private parties to allocate coal blocks. The… Continue Reading...


Tagged: Coal Scam Case Update  
Disclaimer: SoOLEGAL in Media collaboration with Lawstreet Journal. SoOLEGAL take no responsbility for the content provided by Lawstreet Journal. For any discrepancies Contact Lawstreet Journal.
Did you find this write up useful? YES 0 NO 0
×

C2RMTo Know More

Something Awesome Is In The Work

0

DAYS

0

HOURS

0

MINUTES

0

SECONDS

Sign-up and we will notify you of our launch.
We’ll also give some discount for your effort :)

* We won’t use your email for spam, just to notify you of our launch.
×

SAARTHTo Know More

Launching Soon : SAARTH, your complete client, case, practise & document management SAAS application with direct client chat feature.

If you want to know more give us a Call at :+91 98109 29455 or Mail info@soolegal.com