New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today said all coal block allocations between 1993 and 2010 were illegal and the process lacked transparency.
Here are top five observations of the Supreme Court
...the allocations made, both under the Screening Committee route and the Government dispensation route, are arbitrary and illegal. What should be the consequences, is the issue which remains to be tackled. We are of the view that, to this limited extent, the matter requires further hearing.
The entire allocation of coal block as per recommendations made by the Screening Committee from 14.07.1993 in 36 meetings and the allocation through the Government dispensation route suffers from the vice of arbitrariness and legal flaws.
The Screening Committee has never been consistent, it has not been transparent, there is no proper application of mind, it has acted on no material in many cases, relevant factors have seldom been its guiding factors, there was no transparency and guidelines have seldom guided it.
The approach had been ad-hoc and casual. There was no fair and transparent procedure, all resulting in unfair distribution of the national wealth.
Common good and public interest have suffered heavily.
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