Former Union minister Dilip Ray sentenced to 3-year imprisonment in coal scam case
A Delhi court had earlier this month reserved the order for October 26 after hearing arguments from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as well the convicts. The court directed the convicts to be present before it physically on that date.
Former Union minister Dilip Ray was on Monday sentenced to three-year imprisonment in a coal scam case. Ray was convicted in the case which pertains to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
A Delhi court had recently held the request for October 26 in the wake of hearing contentions from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to the convicts. The court guided the convicts to be available before it genuinely on that date.
Other than Ray, former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, the CBI had looked forever detainment for different convicts – two senior authorities of the Ministry of Coal around then, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, and Castron Technologies Ltd’s (CTL) chief Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla.
The beam was indicted under different areas including 409 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which relates to criminal penetration of trust by a local official.
“I am extremely astonished at conviction under segment 409 of the IPC as a similar court in the past has absolved individuals in 409 IPC taking into account three-judge seat judgment of Supreme Court. Notwithstanding, I invite sentence not being cruel of three years having been forced by the court,” said Vijay Aggarwal, advocate who spoke to different charged in 2G trick and is additionally speaking to different denounced in coal trick cases.
This was the principal conviction in the coal trick.
The appointed authority had said that Ray “unscrupulously encouraged portion of the surrendered non-nationalized coal mining territory for CTL and that too infringing upon the bearing of law.”
The case relates to the assignment of the Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to CTL in 1999.
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