Manmohan Singh Coal Case | Supreme Court Closes Coal Block Case Against Ex-PM Manmohan Singh

The Supreme Court on Wednesday closed a criminal case against former prime minister Manmohan Singh in a coal block allocation case while setting aside a summoning order passed against him. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana accepted the CBI's closure report giving a clean chit to the former PM and others. Singh, who died in December 2024, now stands formally exonerated in one of the United Progressive Alliance government's most high-profile criminal cases. The top court said there were no cogent reasons to discard the CBI's closure reports or take cognisance against him. "We have gone through both the closure reports filed by the CBI with the able assistance of learned senior counsel for the parties. Having regard to the parameters consistently laid down by this court in the matter of acceptance or rejection of an investigation report filed by an investigating agency, we are satisfied that there were no cogent reasons to set aside the closure reports filed by the CBI and take cognisance," the court said.