{"id":38514,"date":"2015-07-29T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T11:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38514"},"modified":"2015-07-29T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T11:12:43","slug":"coal-scam-court-summons-ex-coal-secy-five-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/coal-scam-court-summons-ex-coal-secy-five-others","title":{"rendered":"Coal scam: Court summons ex-Coal Secy, five others"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37779\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/coal-scam.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37779\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/coal-scam-have-approached-moc-on-sanction-issue-cbi-to-court\/coal-scam-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/coal-scam.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"coal scam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/coal-scam.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/coal-scam.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37779 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/coal-scam.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Coal scam: Court summons ex-Coal Secy, five others\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coal scam: Court summons ex-Coal Secy, five others<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and five others, including two senior public servants, have been summoned as accused by a special court for their alleged roles in a coal block allocation scam case.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Gupta, the court summoned K S Kropha, then Joint Secretary of Ministry of Coal (MoC), and K C Samria, who was then Director (Coal Allocation-I section) in MoC, Brahmani Thermal Power Pvt Ltd (BTPPL), its Chairman P Trivikrama Prasad and its Vice-Chairman Y Harish Chandra Prasad as accused in the case.<\/p>\n<p>They were summoned for the alleged offences under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servants) and 420 (cheating) of IPC and under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.<\/p>\n<p>Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar yesterday summoned them for August 19 in connection with a case pertaining to alleged irregularities in allocation of Rampia and dip side of Rampia coal block in Odisha to M\/s Navbharat Power Pvt Ltd (NPPL), which is now known as BTPPL, in January 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The court summoned them as accused after taking cognisance of CBI&#8217;s final report filed in the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, thus, hereby take cognisance of offence under section 120-B IPC against all the accused persons i.e. M\/s BTPPL, its Chairman P Trivikrama Prasad and Vice-Chairman Y Harish Chandra Prasad, H C Gupta, K C Samria and K S Kropha and also of the offences under section 120-B\/409\/420 IPC and under section 13(1)(c)\/13(1)(d) of PC Act against them besides of the offences under section 13(1)(d) PC Act against H C Gupta, K S Kropha and K C Samria,&#8221; the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>While summoning Gupta, the court said that being the then Coal Secretary, he was &#8220;duty bound under the law to ensure its distribution\/allocation in accordance with the rule of law to deserving applicant companies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, on account of his (Gupta) failure to take reasonable safeguards as was expected of him while working as such public servant coupled with various acts of omission and commission as discussed in order dated November 12, 2014, the important natural nationalized resources of the country were allowed to be misappropriated by M\/s NPPL,&#8221; the court said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and five others, including two senior public servants, have been summoned as accused by a special court for their alleged roles in a coal block allocation scam case. 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