A Delhi Court will pronounce order on sentence against former Union Minister of State Dilip Ray and others in connection with the 1999 Jharkhand Coal Scam on October 26. .Bharat Parashar, Special CBI Judge today directed the physical presence of all convicted persons on the said date. .Take all precautions for COVID-19, Judge Parashar said as he asked all counsel to ensure the presence of their clients. .While the counsel for the convicts have sought leniency from Court on account of the age and medical condition, State pressed for maximum punishment..Jharkhand Coal Scam: Special CBI Judge finds former Minister of State Dilip Ray guilty.Earlier this month, the Court had convicted Ray and others for the offence of criminal conspiracy and other offences in connection with the coal scam..The case pertains to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999, when Ray was Minister of State for Coal in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government..Apart from Ray, the court also convicted two former senior officials of the Ministry of Coal Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, as well as the Director of Castron Technologies Limited, Mahendra Kumar Aggarwalla.
A Delhi Court will pronounce order on sentence against former Union Minister of State Dilip Ray and others in connection with the 1999 Jharkhand Coal Scam on October 26. .Bharat Parashar, Special CBI Judge today directed the physical presence of all convicted persons on the said date. .Take all precautions for COVID-19, Judge Parashar said as he asked all counsel to ensure the presence of their clients. .While the counsel for the convicts have sought leniency from Court on account of the age and medical condition, State pressed for maximum punishment..Jharkhand Coal Scam: Special CBI Judge finds former Minister of State Dilip Ray guilty.Earlier this month, the Court had convicted Ray and others for the offence of criminal conspiracy and other offences in connection with the coal scam..The case pertains to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999, when Ray was Minister of State for Coal in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government..Apart from Ray, the court also convicted two former senior officials of the Ministry of Coal Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, as well as the Director of Castron Technologies Limited, Mahendra Kumar Aggarwalla.
