‘Awaiting response from competent authority’

CBI has informed a special court that response of competent authority was still awaited on the issue of granting sanction to prosecute government servants allegedly involved in two separate cases lodged in coal blocks allocation scam. 

"It has been submitted by senior public prosecutor that necessary report for considering according of sanction has already been sent to the competent authority but the response from competent authority is still awaited," the court said.