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Coalgate: CBI to record the statement of key PM aide TKA Nair
Nearly one-and-a-half-years after starting probe in coalgate, CBI is likely to examine as witness TKA Nair, advisor to Prime Minister, in connection with irregularities in allocation of coal blocks.
New Delhi: Nearly one-and-a-half-years after starting probe in coalgate, CBI is likely to examine as a witness TKA Nair, advisor to Prime Minister, in connection with alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks.
The sources said agency is likely to record the statement of Nair on the issue of allocation of Talabira coal block to Hindalco.
In its FIR against Hindalco, CBI has alleged that the company got the coal block even after being rejected by the Screening Committee.
It alleged that the only material change that took place between rejection of Hindalco`s application by the Screening Committee and allotment were two letters routed to the then Coal Secretary P C Parakh through the PMO and his personal meeting with Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group.
Nair`s comments may also be sought on some other coal block allocations especially those allotted when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was holding the charge of the Coal Ministry.
The sources said Nair`s examination is likely to take place by the end of this month as the apex court has directed the agency to complete its probe in Coal scam by April end.
They said the agency needs to seek his clarification as it is going to wrap up its probe and inform the Supreme Court about the outcome of the case.
CBI will be filing its final reports in five coal scam cases before March 26. CBI has filed 16 FIRs which included those against AMR Iron and Steel, JLD Yavatmal Energy, Vini Iron and Steel Udyog, JAS Infrastructure Capital Pvt Ltd, Grace Industries, Jindal Steel and Power, Rathi Steel and Power Ltd, Jharkhand Ispat, Green Infrastructure, Kamal Sponge, Pushp Steel, Hindalco, BLA Industries, Castron Technologies and Castron Mining and Nav Bharat Power Private Limited.
These FIRs were registered after the agency probed three preliminary enquiries related to coal block allocation between 2006 and 2009, 1993 and 2004 and projects given under a government scheme.
The agency has already examined two former PMO officials --Vini Mahajan and Ashish Gupta-who were posted in the PMO between 2006 and 2009.
During that period, the Prime Minister was handling charge of the Coal Ministry.
Vini Mahajan, a 1987-batch IAS officer from Punjab cadre, was a Director with the PMO during the period and has now been repatriated back to the state where she is Principal Secretary level officer. Ashish Gupta, an IPS-officer of 1989-batch from Uttar Pradesh cadre, who was the vigilance officer in the PMO, has also gone back to his cadre.
In its FIR against Hindalco, CBI has alleged that the company got the coal block even after being rejected by the Screening Committee.
It alleged that the only material change that took place between rejection of Hindalco`s application by the Screening Committee and allotment were two letters routed to the then Coal Secretary P C Parakh through the PMO and his personal meeting with Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group.
Nair`s comments may also be sought on some other coal block allocations especially those allotted when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was holding the charge of the Coal Ministry.
The sources said Nair`s examination is likely to take place by the end of this month as the apex court has directed the agency to complete its probe in Coal scam by April end.
They said the agency needs to seek his clarification as it is going to wrap up its probe and inform the Supreme Court about the outcome of the case.
CBI will be filing its final reports in five coal scam cases before March 26. CBI has filed 16 FIRs which included those against AMR Iron and Steel, JLD Yavatmal Energy, Vini Iron and Steel Udyog, JAS Infrastructure Capital Pvt Ltd, Grace Industries, Jindal Steel and Power, Rathi Steel and Power Ltd, Jharkhand Ispat, Green Infrastructure, Kamal Sponge, Pushp Steel, Hindalco, BLA Industries, Castron Technologies and Castron Mining and Nav Bharat Power Private Limited.
These FIRs were registered after the agency probed three preliminary enquiries related to coal block allocation between 2006 and 2009, 1993 and 2004 and projects given under a government scheme.
The agency has already examined two former PMO officials --Vini Mahajan and Ashish Gupta-who were posted in the PMO between 2006 and 2009.
During that period, the Prime Minister was handling charge of the Coal Ministry.
Vini Mahajan, a 1987-batch IAS officer from Punjab cadre, was a Director with the PMO during the period and has now been repatriated back to the state where she is Principal Secretary level officer. Ashish Gupta, an IPS-officer of 1989-batch from Uttar Pradesh cadre, who was the vigilance officer in the PMO, has also gone back to his cadre.