Coal mining in Madhya Pradesh: SC pulls up Centre for listing valid firm with those in errant list
The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre for wrongly including the name of a coal mining company that had a valid licence for mining coal in Madhya Pradesh alongside a list of allegedly errant mine owners, a majority of whose allotments were cancelled by the top court while dealing with the coal block allotment scam in 2014.
A bench of Chief Justice of India N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on the government for “this callous, careless and casual approach” due to which the “petitioner (BLA Industries Private Limited) had to suffer loss and ignominy.”.
