A special court in Delhi today directed CBI to supply all deficient papers to the accused in a coal block allocation scam case in which former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and others were summoned. CBI Judge Bharat Parashar also allowed the plea of defence counsel to inspect the documents of the case.<br/><br/>During the hearing, Senior Public Prosecutor A P Singh filed a consolidated list of documents and statements being relied upon by the CBI and said these have been supplied to<br/>the accused. Counsel for the accused however raised objection and said that in the consolidated list, several documents and the corresponding seizure memos were still not available. <br/><br/>To this, the court directed the Investigating Officer to supply deficient documents to the accused and fixed the case for October 29th for further scrutiny of documents. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in allocation of Rampia and dip side of Rampia coal block in Odisha to M/s Navbharat Power Pvt Ltd, now known as Brahmani Thermal Power Pvt Ltd, in January 2008.
News On AIR | September 24, 2015 7:41 PM
Coal scam: Court directs CBI to supply documents to accused