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Coalscam: Court to consider charge sheet against Koda on Jan 9

New Delhi: A special court today fixed January 9 for considering CBI's charge sheet filed against former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, ex-chief secretary Ashok Kumar Basu, former coal secretary H C Gupta and five

PTI PTI Updated on: December 22, 2014 19:57 IST
coalscam court to consider charge sheet against koda on jan
coalscam court to consider charge sheet against koda on jan 9

New Delhi: A special court today fixed January 9 for considering CBI's charge sheet filed against former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, ex-chief secretary Ashok Kumar Basu, former coal secretary H C Gupta and five others in connection with a coal blocks allocation scam case.

Special CBI judge Bharat Parashar fixed the matter for consideration of charge sheet after the agency filed various documents related to the case in the court.

“Set of relevant documents has been submitted. Arguments heard. Put up on January 9, 2015 for consideration,” the judge said.

The court was hearing the matter in which CBI had filed a charge sheet against Koda, Basu, Gupta, two serving public servants, Basant Kumar Bhattacharya and Bipin Bihari Singh,director of Kolkata-based accused company Vini Iron Steel and Udyog Ltd, Vaibhav Tulsyan, and Vijay Joshi as accused.

All the accused have been named in the charge sheet for the offences punishable under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating) of the IPC and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The case pertains to allocation of coal blocks to Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Ltd in Jharkhand's Rajhara town in which its directors and unknown public servants of Coal Ministry, Jharkhand government and others were made accused in the FIR lodged by the CBI in September 2012.

 

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