Coalgate: CBI files 19th FIR
According to reports, the CBI named the directors of Nagpur-based company Topworth Urja and Metals Ltd. and other unknown people in the FIR.
The agency has booked the company for cheating and criminal conspiracy.
On Mar 27, the CBI filed two more FIRs in the coal scam.
One FIR was filed against Nagpur-based Central Collieries Company Limited's owner and unknown public servants.
The second FIR was filed against the promoter and the director of Delhi-based Prakash Industries and unknown public servants.
The coal scam had sprung into headlines after the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on coal block allocation estimated a loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore to the national exchequer owing to irregular allocations.
The CAG named 25 private companies as beneficiaries of coal block allocations in various states. They included companies like Essar Power, Hindalco, Tata Power, Tata Steel and Jindal Steel and Power Ltd.
The allocations date back to the time when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was holding the portfolio.
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