A Delhi court on Friday convicted former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and former Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Coal (MoC) K S Kropha, in a case related to a Maharashtra coal block allocation scam.
Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj also convicted Grace Industries Ltd (GIL) and its director Mukesh Gupta of criminal conspiracy and cheating, and posted the matter for August 4, when the court will hear augments on the quantum of sentence to be awarded to the four convicts.
According to the CBI, between 2005 and 2011, the accused persons hatched a criminal conspiracy and cheated the government by fraudulently inducing the MoC to allocate ‘Lohara East Coal Block’ in favour of GIL based on false information about net worth,
