NEW DELHI: A special court on Tuesday convicted former union minister Dilip Ray, among others, in a coal scam case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar, in his judgment held Ray, former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, guilty of criminal conspiracy and other offences.
“It also goes without saying that the exercise of powers by the minister on behalf of the central government was to be in accordance with the direction of law and at the same time it was his duty to ensure that the officers working under him in the Ministry acts as per law,” as per the judgement.
