Prison Time period Of Ex Union Minister In Coal Rip-off Suspended Through Delhi Prime Courtroom
The courtroom will listen the topic on November 25 (Document)
New Delhi:
The Delhi Prime Courtroom on Tuesday suspended a three-year prison time period given to former union minister Dilip Ray over a case related to irregularities in allocating Jharkhand coal blocks in 1999. Justice Suresh Kumar Kait has issued realize to the CBI in quest of its reaction on Mr Ray’s attraction towards his conviction.
The courtroom admitted his attraction within the topic and indexed the case for additional listening to on November 25, information company PTI reported.
Dilip Ray, the previous Minister of State (coal) within the Atal Bihari Vajpayee govt, used to be convicted closing month within the case. The CBI had sought existence imprisonment for him and two different convicts, arguing the utmost punishment must be awarded to ship a message to the society.
The convicted individuals had advised the courtroom to take a lenient view making an allowance for their outdated age and that they have got by no means been convicted previous.
But even so him, the courtroom had additionally awarded three-year prison time period every to 2 senior officers of the ministry at the moment — Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, each about 80-year-old. It additionally awarded the similar prison time period to Castron Applied sciences Ltd (CTL) director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla (75).
The trial courtroom had, on the other hand, granted bail to the convicts for one month to allow them to manner the prime courtroom difficult the decision.
Whilst pronouncing the sentence, the trial courtroom had stated he “dishonestly facilitated allocation of the deserted non-nationalised coal mining space in favour of CTL and that too in violation of the course of regulation.”
The case relates to allocation of Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to CTL in 1999.
With inputs from PTI
