The Supreme Court has appointed senior advocate RS Cheema as the special public prosecutor (SPP) in the Coalgate scam special court trial, reported the PTI , presided over by additional sessions judge Bharat Parashar. A week ago the bench of Chief Justice RM Lodha, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice ...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, who recently withdrew from the process to become a Supreme Court judge after government leaks about his suitability, should be the special public prosecutor in the Coalgate scam cases, reported the PTI . Lodha, who had...

SC solves mystery of missing coalgate files: criminality and an attempt to tamper with evidence. Has set a two week deadline for unearthing documents [TOI]

Hot coals : Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Siddharth Luthra recused himself from acting for the Centreal Bureau of Investigations (CBI) in the Coalgate scam yesterday. CBI’s previous counsel was senior advocate Uday Lalit, who recused himself after he came under pressure for having represented m...