New Delhi: Former Union Minister of State (MoS) for Coal, Dilip Ray has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a coal scam case pertaining to the alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
While pronouncing the order, the special CBI court has sentenced five people, including Dillip Ray to three years in jail in the coal scam case. Two former senior officials of the Ministry of Coal — Pradip Kumar Banerjee, the then additional secretary and Nitya Nand Gautam, former advisor (Projects) have also been sentenced. Castron Technologies Limited’s Director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla has also been convicted along with Ray.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday urged the Delhi court to award life imprisonment to former Union Minister of State (MoS) for Coal Dilip Ray and other convicts in the coal block allocation case.
Dilip Ray Ray was Minister of State (Coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. The case pertains to allocation of 105.153 hectares of non-nationalised and abandoned coal mining area in Jharkhand’s Giridih district in favour of Castron Technologies Limited by 14th Screening Committee of the Ministry of Coal in 1999.
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