New Delhi: CBI will on Monday submit a status report to the Supreme Court on the progress made in the coal scam probe and on filing charge sheet in one of the cases registered by the probe agency in 2012.
The Supreme Court had asked CBI, during the last hearing on February 11, to submit a status report about filing of charge sheet in six of the cases finalised by the agency.
CBI has filed over 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. Permission is sought from nine states which were reluctant in allowing the agency to conduct probe in their jurisdiction.
According to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), an estimated loss of Rs 1.86 lakh crore was caused to the national Exchequer in the coal block allocation scam.