Coal scam: SC to decide on cancellation of blocks today

September 01, 2014 09:06

The Supreme Court will decide today whether to cancel the coal blocks that were allocated by the screening committee between 1993 and 2010, a move which it had termed as unfair and illegal.

In its ealier decision on August 25, the apex court had ruled the 218 coal blocks that were allocated between 1993 and 2010 by the screening committee as illegal as they were not fair and transparent and suffered from vice of arbitrariness.

The apex court, which examined the allocation of 218 blocks, said "Common good and public interest have, thus, suffered heavily" as "there was no fair and transparent procedure, all resulting in unfair distribution of the national wealth."

A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha also held that "no State Government or public sector undertakings of the State Governments are eligible for mining coal for commercial use".

The bench, however, stopped short of de-allocating the blocks and fixed September 1 to decide the consequences of the illegality of the coal blocks.

Moreover, the bench also ruled that no objective criteria was followed and guidelines were breached in the coal block allocation, adding that all allocations were done in illegal manner and that it suffers from vice of arbitrariness.

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