Coal scam: Court to pass order on CBI's final report today
July 17, 2015  09:15
A special court in Delhi will today pronounce its order on CBI's final probe report filed in a coal scam case allegedly involving Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda and others.

The CBI had earlier informed the court that the issue of grant of sanction to prosecute L S Janoti, who has retired as an under secretary in the home ministry, was pending before the coal ministry. 

It had said they had sought information from the coal ministry regarding the status of request for accord of sanction to prosecute Janoti, who was earlier posted in the coal ministry. 

As Janoti has retired and the competent authority has not refused to grant sanction to prosecute him, there was no bar in taking cognisance against Janoti for his alleged role in the case, the CBI had said.

The court, in its January 30 order, had noted that former Minister of State for Coal Santosh Bagrodia, ex-Coal Secretary H C Gupta and Janoti had allegedly committed criminal misconduct and facilitated accused firm AMR Iron and Steel Pvt Ltd to unlawfully obtain Bander coal block in Maharashtra. 

It had asked CBI to further probe the case in which the agency had chargesheeted Vijay Darda, his son Devendra Darda, AMR Iron and Steel Pvt Ltd's Director Manoj Jayaswal and the firm, as accused.

The court had earlier granted bail to the three accused after they had appeared before it. Vijay Darda has denied the allegations against him.
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