Coalscam: Court to consider CBI's closure report on 20th January

Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar fixed the matter for consideration on January 20 after the probe agency filed the relevant documents pertaining to the case before the court.

"We have filed a complete closure report in the matter. We are filing all the relevant documents in the court," senior public prosecutor V K Sharma said.

The court was hearing the matter in which CBI had earlier lodged an FIR against Prakash Industries Ltd (PIL) and various others in connection with alleged irregularities in allocation of Chhattisgarh's Fatehpur coal block.

According to CBI, the Fatehpur coal block was allocated jointly to PIL and one other company by the 35th screening committee.

Source: Hindi News and Newspaper

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Coalgate: BJP backs court order on recording Manmohan's statement, Congress reacts cautiously

"We had maintained back then also that the buck stops at the Prime Minister's Office because he was the Coal Minister then and today that is what the law has reiteratred," BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
  
Terming it as "due process", another BJP leader Nalin Kohli said, "The legal probe says something that applies equally to every citizen and there are no merits or demerits from that perspective. If the court does something within the legal process, that has to be followed".
  
The Congress said it would react only after "perusing" the court order.
  
"If at all the court has said something we should wait for the formal court order to come out. Only after perusing the court order will it be appropriate to comment on it," Congress leader Manish Tewari said.

Source: News in Hindi and Newspaper

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