Coal Scam Report

The Kolkata Police is probing a case against a businessman, who was heard talking to an ED officer on topics like cattle smuggling and coal scam in a purported audio clip, which was leaked before the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.

Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee has received a fresh summons from the Enforcement Directorate to appear for questioning in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged coal mine scam in Bengal.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned Anup Majhi aka Lala, the alleged mastermind of the illegal coal smuggling scam in West Bengal, for questioning on Tuesday at its Kolkata office.

The consent of the Bengal government is not needed to investigate the coal scam in the state, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court today. The top court is hearing petitions which oppose the probe, pointing out that the timing is suspect as elections are due in the state by the end of this month. The agency had earlier question...

A security official of Eastern Coalfield Ltd in West Bengal's Asansol suffered a heart attack during a search by the CBI in a case of illegal mining and theft. The official, Dhananjay Roy, was rushed to hospital, where he died. He was one of several people whose properties were raided by the CBI today in connection with the case.

Former union minister Dilip Ray was today sentenced to three year imprisonmentover his role in the alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged involvement of some Prime Minister's Office (PMO) officials in the coal scam case against Jindal Steel.

The CBI has registered a case into alleged irregularities in the allocation of the Kilhoni coal block in Maharashtra to a private firm in 1998, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.

The CBI will file its status report in the coal scam probe in the Supreme Court soon, officials said on Saturday.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked CBI's Special Investigation Team (SIT) to file a fresh status report giving details of probe into charges of "abuse of official position" by former CBI chief Ranjit Sinha who had allegedly tried to scuttle the probe in coal scam cases.

The Jharkhand coal scam had hit the headlines in 2012 after an audit report by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) revealed that the country lost up to Rs 1.86 lakh crore due to inefficient coal blocks allocation.

The CBI is investigating a decade-old deal which saw Air India and Indian Airlines acquiring 111 aircraft, saddling the national carriers with losses. The deal was approved by the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; the new inquiry adds to a list of scandals linked to his two successive terms in sectors including coal and telecom.

Two days after former coal secretary HC Gupta was convicted in a coal scam case, Union minister Nitin Gadkari today sounded a warning, saying punishing bureaucrats unless they have deliberately done wrong, will have a demoralising effect.

A judgment which convicted three former coal ministry officials for corruption in one of the cases related to the coal scam on Friday has also given a huge relief to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in charge of the coal ministry then. A detailed order of the verdict by the special CBI court, which has been made available today, says t...

Former Coal Secretary HC Gupta is among three former bureaucrats convicted of corruption in a coal scam case by a special CBI court today.

The Kolkata Police is probing a case against a businessman, who was heard talking to an ED officer on topics like cattle smuggling and coal scam in a purported audio clip, which was leaked before the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.

Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee has received a fresh summons from the Enforcement Directorate to appear for questioning in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged coal mine scam in Bengal.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned Anup Majhi aka Lala, the alleged mastermind of the illegal coal smuggling scam in West Bengal, for questioning on Tuesday at its Kolkata office.

The consent of the Bengal government is not needed to investigate the coal scam in the state, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court today. The top court is hearing petitions which oppose the probe, pointing out that the timing is suspect as elections are due in the state by the end of this month. The agency had earlier question...

A security official of Eastern Coalfield Ltd in West Bengal's Asansol suffered a heart attack during a search by the CBI in a case of illegal mining and theft. The official, Dhananjay Roy, was rushed to hospital, where he died. He was one of several people whose properties were raided by the CBI today in connection with the case.

Former union minister Dilip Ray was today sentenced to three year imprisonmentover his role in the alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stay the investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged involvement of some Prime Minister's Office (PMO) officials in the coal scam case against Jindal Steel.

The CBI has registered a case into alleged irregularities in the allocation of the Kilhoni coal block in Maharashtra to a private firm in 1998, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.

The CBI will file its status report in the coal scam probe in the Supreme Court soon, officials said on Saturday.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked CBI's Special Investigation Team (SIT) to file a fresh status report giving details of probe into charges of "abuse of official position" by former CBI chief Ranjit Sinha who had allegedly tried to scuttle the probe in coal scam cases.

The Jharkhand coal scam had hit the headlines in 2012 after an audit report by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) revealed that the country lost up to Rs 1.86 lakh crore due to inefficient coal blocks allocation.

The CBI is investigating a decade-old deal which saw Air India and Indian Airlines acquiring 111 aircraft, saddling the national carriers with losses. The deal was approved by the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; the new inquiry adds to a list of scandals linked to his two successive terms in sectors including coal and telecom.

Two days after former coal secretary HC Gupta was convicted in a coal scam case, Union minister Nitin Gadkari today sounded a warning, saying punishing bureaucrats unless they have deliberately done wrong, will have a demoralising effect.

A judgment which convicted three former coal ministry officials for corruption in one of the cases related to the coal scam on Friday has also given a huge relief to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in charge of the coal ministry then. A detailed order of the verdict by the special CBI court, which has been made available today, says t...

Former Coal Secretary HC Gupta is among three former bureaucrats convicted of corruption in a coal scam case by a special CBI court today.