The Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI, has sought more time to clarify queries posed by a Delhi court in closure report filed against Kumar Mangalam Birla and others in a coal scam case.

Special Public Prosecutor R S Cheema told Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar that the DIG and SP concerned were not available and therefore, he needed some more time to address the arguments in the matter.

The court allowed the submission of Cheema and posted the matter for hearing on the 13th of the next month. The court was hearing the closure report filed by CBI in its FIR lodged against Birla, former Coal Secretary P C Parakh and others.

On the 12th of this month, the court had asked CBI as to what was the hurry in closing the case in which FIR was registered against Birla, Parakh and others.

The observation of the court had come after the investigating officer in the case had contended that the original minutes of meeting of screening committee, in which Birla-owned Hindalco's application seeking allocation of coal blocks was dealt with, were missing.