India’s antitrust body conducted raids at several small mining services companies on Friday for allegedly colluding on prices while offering services to the world’s biggest coal miner, Coal India, four sources told Reuters.
Officers of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) raided companies in Kolkata in West Bengal state and Ranchi and Dhanbad in eastern state of Jharkhand, said two of the sources, all of whom declined to be named due to sensitivity of the operation.