Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda today moved an application before a special court seeking summoning of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and two others as accused in a coal scam case in which CBI had chargesheeted industrialist Naveen Jindal and others.<br/>Besides Dr Singh, who was then holding the portfolio of the Coal Ministry, Anand Swarup, the then Secretary (Energy) and Jai Shankar Tiwari, the then Mines and Geology Secretary, have been named in the Koda's application. Koda is also an accused in the case.<br/><br/>The copy of the application was supplied to CBI and the court asked the agency to file its reply, if any.<br/><br/>However, Koda's counsel told the court that the arguments on the application be heard along with arguments on framing of charges in the case.<br/><br/>The court, then, fixed the matter for the 28th of this month for scrutiny of documents supplied to the accused by CBI along with its charge sheet. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in allocation of Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block in Jharkhand to two Jindal group companies, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd and Gagan Sponge Iron Pvt Ltd.<br/><br/>Besides Jindal and Koda, former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, ex-Coal Secretary HC Gupta and 11 others, including five firms, are accused in the case.