{"id":52559,"date":"2018-04-27T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T09:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=52559"},"modified":"2018-04-27T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T09:01:41","slug":"court-convicts-gondwana-ispat-director-coal-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-convicts-gondwana-ispat-director-coal-scam","title":{"rendered":"Court convicts Gondwana Ispat, director: Coal scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-attachment-id=\"52560\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-convicts-gondwana-ispat-director-coal-scam\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" 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-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?resize=133%2C100&amp;ssl=1 133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/coal-scam-case-gondwana-ispat-ltd-cbi_56981.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A special court here today held Gondwana Ispat Ltd and its director guilty of cheating and criminal conspiracy to get a coal block in Maharashtra allocated to it.<\/p>\n<p>Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar, who was appointed exclusively to deal with the coal scam cases, directed that the firm&#8217;s director Ashok Daga be taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The firm and its director were earlier summoned as accused for misrepresenting facts to get Majra coal block in Maharashtra allocated to it.<\/p>\n<p>Daga and the firm have been convicted under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC and also for the substantive offence under section 420 of the IPC.<\/p>\n<p>The court has put the case for hearing on quantum of sentence at 2 pm today.<\/p>\n<p>The firm was allocated the Majra coal block in 2003 and an FIR was lodged against it in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special court here today held Gondwana Ispat Ltd and its director guilty of cheating and criminal conspiracy to get a coal block in Maharashtra allocated to it. 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