The CBI on Wednesday urged a Delhi court to award life imprisonment to former Union Minister Dilip Ray and five others convicted in a corruption case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block.
Ray, then the Union Minister of State for Coal in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1999, was convicted by a special CBI court which observed that he “abused his official position” as his decision of “relaxation of policy without any logical or legal basis amounts to gross abuse of his powers by the minister”.
The case pertains to allocation of Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih, Jharkhand, to Castron Technologies Ltd (CTL) in 1999. The court will pronounce its sentencing order on October 26.
