In the first sentencing in a coal block allocation case, a special court in Delhi today sent to jail, for four years, two directors of Jharkhand Ispat Pvt. Ltd. whom it had convicted of criminal conspiracy and cheating in bagging a coal block, saying “white collar criminals” are “more dangerous” to ...

A Delhi court today granted bail to industrialist Naveen Jindal, former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and eight others in a case relating to the allocation of coal blocks. Among others who got bail are former union minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao and former coal secretary HC Gupt...

In a setback to former CBI director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court on Thursday termed as “inappropriate” his meetings with some of the accused in the coal block allocation scam at his official residence. “It was inappropriate for Ranjit Sinha to have met the accused persons at his residence,” the b...

The Supreme Court Monday asked Gujarat’s chief secretary to explain as to why cooperation was not being extended to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by providing the investigating agency with the documents relating to Naini and Morga-II coal blocks. A bench of Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice...

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea challenging the ordinance on coal blocks, providing for retrospective recovery of a levy of Rs 295 per metric tonne of extracted coal and linking its payment as a qualification to participate in the cancelled coal blocks’ auction. The Coal Mines (Special P...

The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear a plea challenging the recent ordinance on coal block allocations, even as it declined a batch of petitions by private companies seeking that it re-look its Sep 24 order cancelling 214 coal blocks allocated from 1993 to 2011. The plea challenging the coal o...

Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay argues that former CBI director Ranjit Sinha’s clandestine meetings with 2G and Coal scam accused were prima facie illegal.

The coal ministry has sought the advice of the government’s chief legal official on issues arising from the Supreme Court’s decision to de-allocate coal mines like forfeiture of bank guarantees and title deeds of mines purchased by the companies. The attorney general Mukul Rohatgi’s opinion is being...

The Supreme Court has cancelled all 214 coal blocks that it declared illegal last month, leaving only four standing, after having ruled they had been awarded in an illegal, arbitrary and non-transparent manner for the last 20 years . [ Download judgment here ] IANS reported: The Supreme Court Wednes...

The Supreme Court bench of three, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, has ordered the potential cancellation of 218 coal block licences – all allocated since 1993 - because they suffered from the “vice of arbitrariness”, according to reports. The court held that the government screening...

Additional solicitor general (ASG) Harin Raval has been asked to resign after he accused attorney general (AG) Goolam Vahanvati of trying to influence the CBI report on the coal blocks allocation scam and of misleading the Supreme Court, in a letter addressed to Vahanvati and marked to law minister ...