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Asked CBI officers to review final reports in coal cases: SPP to court

The Supreme Court-appointed special public prosecutor in Coalgate, today told a Delhi court that he has asked the CBI to review its revised report in the coal blocks allocation cases before it is placed before the Special CBI Judge on October 16.

The prosecutor’s submission came after Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar observed that there might be discrepancies in the CBI’s revised report which the agency is intending to file in the coal scam cases.

“I am asking them (CBI Investigating Officers) to review the fresh final reports. These are the old ones (reports) in which we are filing supplementary reports now,” Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) R S Cheema said.

During the hearing, the prosecutor also told the court that the agency would file on October 16 a detailed revised closure report before it in a coal blocks allocations scam case in which CBI had earlier concluded that no undue benefit was given to JLD Yavatmal Energy Ltd by the Coal Ministry in allocation of coal block to it.

The court allowed the submissions of Cheema and fixed the case for October 16.

“SPP states that CBI will file a revised/ supplementary closure report which shall be detailed in all aspects. Put up for October 16,” the judge said.

The submissions came during the hearing on consideration of CBI’s closure report in which it had said nothing substantial has emerged to establish cheating and criminal conspiracy among officials of the Ministry of Coal and JLD Yavatmal Energy Ltd’s directors, including Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda.

The agency had filed the closure report in the case in which it had earlier lodged an FIR against JLD Yavatmal Energy Ltd, its directors Vijay Darda, his son Devendra Darda, his brother Rajendra Darda, Manoj Jayaswal, Anand Jayaswal and Abhishek Jayaswal and unknown persons under Sections 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.

The case was transferred to the special court, which is exclusively dealing with the cases of the coal scam.

The agency had earlier filed the closure report in the court of the chief metropolitan magistrate.

Source: PTI