New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed the status report on coal blocks allocation scam probe in a sealed envelop in the Supreme Court. The apex court is likely to take up the report on October 29.
Sources say the CBI report gives details about three aspects related to coal blocks allocation - investigations carried out in the case, related files missing from Coal and Steel Ministries and the latest FIR against Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary PC Parakh.
The CBI has registered 14 FIRs so far in connection with the alleged graft in allocation of coal blocks in which AMR Iron and Steel, JLD Yavatmal Energy, Vini Iron and Steel Udyog, JAS Infrastructure Capital Pvt Ltd, Vikash Metals, Grace Industries, Gagan Sponge, Jindal Steel and Power, Rathi Steel and Power Ltd, Jharkhand Ispat, Green Infrastructure, Kamal Sponge, Pushp Steel and Hindalco have been named as accused.
The agency has also given a status of the preliminary inquiry registered by it in connection with the missing files, the sources said.
The apex court is monitoring the probe in the coal block allocation scam to "restore the larger public interest and confidence of the people into the case of this magnitude".
The court is scrutinising coal block allocation since 1993 on three PILs seeking cancellation of blocks on the ground that rules were flouted in giving away the natural resources and that certain companies were favoured in this process.
In a recent hearing, Supreme Court had issued notices to seven coal mining states-- Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal-- to explain allocation policies adopted by them by October 29.
(With additional information from PTI)
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