Rs 295 per tonne penalty imposed on all cancelled coal block holders by SC. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, says that of the 214 coal blocks that have been cancelled, four coal blocks remain. Two have been saved, one belonging to SAIL and the other to NTPC.

Aam Aadmi Party @AamAadmiParty tweets: SC scraps all coal block allocation except 4. Salute to Prashant Bhushan fr making sure that India's National resources don't gt plundered.

In 2012, Bhushan, who is a senior member of the AAP, filed a PIL seeking cancellation of coal block allocations by the government on the grounds that certain companies had been illegally favoured by the politicians.

In response to the PIL, the SC scrutinised coal block allocation since 1993. Bhushan also filed a PIL against illegal iron ore extraction in Goa, which led to the Supreme Court halting all the mining operations in the state.