CBI today registered a case against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former Coal Secretary, P C Parekh in connection with alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks in 2005. After registering the 14th FIR in the coal scam, CBI teams carried out coordinated searches at nearly six locations in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bhubaneshwar.
CBI sources said, the agency has booked Birla as a representative of the Aditya Birla Group and his group’s company Hindalco for alleged corruption in the allocation of Talabira two coal block in Odisha which was allotted to it in November, 2005.