Coal Scam: CBI Court Likely to Pronounce Quantum of Punishment to Dillip Ray
New Delhi: The special CBI court today likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment to former Union Coal Minister Dillip Ray and others in the coal scam. Dilip Ray who has been convicted in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999. Ray was convicted under [...]
New Delhi: The special CBI court today likely to pronounce the quantum of punishment to former Union Coal Minister Dillip Ray and others in the coal scam.
Dilip Ray who has been convicted in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
Ray was convicted under various sections including 409 of IPC (criminal breach of trust by a public servant), that varies a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar reserved the order for October 26 after hearing arguments from the CBI as well the convicts.
Besides Ray, former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, the CBI also sought life imprisonment for other convicts in the case including two senior officials of the Ministry of Coal at that time, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, and Castron Technologies Ltd’s (CTL) director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla.
This is the first conviction in coal scam for the offence carrying maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
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