Coal block scam

On Chief Justice S.A. Bobde' inquiry, Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, submitted, “The SPP should be independent of Centre and in such matters, the Court should not be swayed by the names proposed by the Centre.”

New Delhi (ILNS): Dilip Ray, a Union minister in the earlier NDA government, was today sentenced to three-year imprisonment by a Special CBI Court in Delhi in a 1999 coal scam case. The case pertains to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.