Live! SC rejects PIL to grill PM in coal probe

October 29, 2013 15:40

Just in: The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking a probe into the PM's role in coal block applications. The SC says it is not inclined to the let the PM be investigated in the matter.

Advocate M L Sharma, who was one of the petitioners on whose PIL the apex court is monitoring the probe in the coalgate, filed an application in the wake of statement by former Coal Secretary P C Parakh that the Prime Minister knew of the coal blocks being allocated to companies like Hindalco and he too should be named as a "conspirator" and made an "accused.

The application said "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was in direct charge of the coal ministry as coal minister in 2005 and had decided to allot the coal block to various allottees including Hindalco".

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