{"id":113458,"date":"2017-05-22T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=113458"},"modified":"2017-05-22T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:21:41","slug":"coal-scam-ex-coal-secretary-2-bureaucrats-sentenced-to-2-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-scam-ex-coal-secretary-2-bureaucrats-sentenced-to-2-years-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal scam: Ex-coal secretary, 2 bureaucrats sentenced to 2 years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former coal secretary H C Gupta was today awarded two-year-imprisonment by a special court here in a coal scam case.<\/p>\n<p>Special CBI Judge Bharat Parasher also sentenced two senior government officials, K S Kropha and K C Samaria, for two-year imprisonment in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs one lakh each on the three convicts.<\/p>\n<p>Besides them, the court imposed a fine of Rs one crore on convicted private firm Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd (KSSPL), while its Managing Director Pawan Kumar Ahluwalia was awarded three-year jail term by the court.<\/p>\n<p>Ahluwalia will also have to pay a fine of Rs 30 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>All the convicts were granted bail soon after the sentence was announced to enable them move the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Gupta and two serving senior officials were earlier convicted by the court for irregularities in the allocation of the Thesgora-B Rudrapuri coal block in Madhya Pradesh to a private firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former coal secretary H C Gupta was today awarded two-year-imprisonment by a special court here in a coal scam case. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parasher also sentenced two senior government officials, K S Kropha and K C Samaria, for two-year imprisonment in the case. Besides the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs one lakh each on the three convicts. Besides them, the court imposed a fine of Rs one crore on convicted private firm Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd (KSSPL), while its Managing Director Pawan Kumar Ahluwalia was awarded three-year jail term by the court. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}