Court asks CBI to record Manmohan Singh's statement on coal block allocation
The court also asked the Central investigation agency to further probe a 2005 coal block allocation involving top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla’s company.
Singh was the coal minister at that point in time. The investigating agency was asked to file a status report on January 27.
In September, the court had also asked the CBI to explain why it was “in such a hurry” to close the Hindalco case.
The CBI had filed a case against Kumar Mangalam Birla and former top bureaucrat PC Parakh, who was the former coal secretary, in relation to a block allocated in 2005 to Hindalco Industries.
Earlier in August this year, the Supreme Court had ruled that all coal blocks allocated by successive governments since 1993 were illegal.
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