CBI likely to file status report in coal scam on Oct 22

The agency would also give a status of the preliminary enquiry registered by it in connection with the missing files, the sources said.

The Supreme Court is monitoring the probe in the coal block allocation scam to “restore the larger public interest and confidence of the people into the case of this magnitude”.  

The court is scrutinising coal block allocation since 1993 on three PILs seeking cancellation of blocks on the ground that rules were flouted in giving away the natural resources and that certain companies were favoured in this process.  

In a recent hearing, Supreme Court had issued notices to seven coal mining states—Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal— to explain allocation policies adopted by them by October 29.