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Coal scam: CBI documents to be scrutinized after complaints of inconsistencies

A special court hearing the coal block allocation case on Tuesday ordered a scrutiny of documents supplied by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after complaints that there were inconsistencies.
The documents will be scrutinized on 13 July.
The investigating officer told the court that he had provided identical sets of the documents—each running into 10,398 pages—to all the accused. They were provided in compact disks.
The court had instructed the CBI and accused parties to complete the exchange of papers by 4 June so that the arguments could begin.
However, Ramesh Gupta, counsel for Naveen Jindal and others accused in the case, said on Tuesday, “It is taking time as it is difficult to compile so many documents. Also, the documents on the CD and hard copy supplied are not the same, with few of them not being legible.”
CBI special court judge Bharat Parashar said, “Let us use the certified copy of the documents placed in court’s record by the CBI, so that there is no scope for confusion. However, it might happen that a few pages of the copy of such certified copy are illegible.”
The case involves alleged irregularities in the allocation of the Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block in Jharkhand in 2008 to two Jindal group companies, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) and Gagan Sponge Iron Pvt. Ltd (GSIPL).
Former Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal along with 14 others were summoned by the CBI to appear before the special court in Delhi after a chargesheet was filed against them. The accused included former Union minister Dasari Narayan Rao and former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda.
The CBI chargesheet alleged that Jindal conspired with Koda for the then chief minister to recommend the two Jindal companies for allocation of the Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block in return for Jindal mobilizing Congress support for Koda’s then unstable Jharkhand government.
All 15 accused were granted bail on 22 May on condition they do not leave India without the court’s permission.

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