CBI court grants bail to ex-Union Minister Dilip Ray convicted in coal scam case
JHARKHAND: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) courtroom on Monday (October 26) granted bail to former Union Minister Dilip Ray and different people, convicted in a Jharkhand coal rip-off case, on a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh every. The courtroom additionally granted them time until November 25 to attraction within the High Court.
Ray was Minister of State (coal) within the Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities.
Earlier within the day, the CBI courtroom sentenced Ray to three years imprisonment in a coal rip-off case pertaining to the alleged irregularities within the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999. Special Judge Bharat Prashar, whereas announcing sentence additionally imposed superb of the sum of Rs 10 lakhs every in opposition to all convicted people.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar additionally awarded three years time period every to 2 senior officers of the Ministry of Coal at the moment — Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam — and Castron Technologies Limited’s Director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla. The CBI had earlier urged the courtroom to award life imprisonment to Ray and different convicts to ship a message to the society as white-collar crimes had been on the rise. The courtroom additional imposed Rs 60 lakh on CLT.
The case pertains to allocation of 105.153 hectares of non-nationalised and deserted coal mining space in Jharkhand’s Giridih district in favour of Castron Technologies Limited by 14th Screening Committee of the Ministry of Coal in 1999.
The convicts had requested the courtroom to take a lenient view in respect of their outdated age and prior clear antecedents. On October 6, the courtroom had convicted them within the case, noting that they conspired collectively past shadows of all affordable doubts to acquire allocation of the coal block.
The courtroom held them responsible of the offences beneath 120-B (felony conspiracy) 409 (felony breach of belief) and 420 (dishonest) of the Indian Penal Code and numerous sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
As many as 51 witnesses had been examined within the case. The prosecution had argued that the info and circumstances of the case clearly pointed to the hatching of a felony conspiracy by the non-public events and the general public servants concerned within the means of allocation of impugned coal block.
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