Relief for Manmohan Singh in Coal Scam Case

Special court dismisses Madhu Koda’s plea seeking summoning of ex-PM Manmohan Singh as accused in a coal scam case.

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A special court has dismissed a plea by Madhu Koda, the former Chief Minister of Jharkhand, seeking summoning of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as an accused in a coal scam case.

The court had on September 28 reserved the order on Koda’s plea after the agency had opposed it saying that there was no evidence which even prima facie suggests that Singh was part of any conspiracy in allocation of a coal block to Naveen Jindal Group firms.

CBI had argued in the court that the plea of Koda, who had sought summoning of Singh and two others as additional accused in the case, was “devoid of any merits” and that the records do not reflect that Singh, who held the Coal Portfolio at that time, had any complicity with any accused in any manner.

Koda had alleged that CBI was trying to show there was no involvement of the then Prime Minister in the entire process.