A special CBI court recently took cognisance of a supplementary chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that has accused the former coal secretary HC Gupta of misleading the then Prime Minister’s Office in 2008, in a corruption case involving a coal block allocation.
This case relates to the allocation of a coal block in Jharkhand to the accused company, Contisteel Limited. The CBI alleged the company “furnished false information to the Screening Committee so as to induce it to allot a coal block in Jharkhand to it”.
Special Judge Sanjay Bansal took cognisance of the chargesheet filed on April 22 against Gupta and K S Kropha, both officers of the Ministry of Coal, and U N Jha, director at Contisteel.
