This Article is From Oct 19, 2013

PM's Office defends coal block allocation to Kumar Mangalam Birla's Hindalco: Full statement

PM's Office defends coal block allocation to Kumar Mangalam Birla's Hindalco: Full statement
New Delhi: Breaking its silence, the Prime Minister's Office today rejected any criminality in the controversial allocation of coal block to Hindalco, saying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had approved it on the basis of "merits" of the case placed before him.

Here is the full statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office:

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