CBI yet to get 150 files, awaits complaint from Coal Ministry

Nearly 150 files and documents are yet to be received from the Coal Ministry as the CBI now awaits a complaint from the ministry to register a case into their mysterious disappearance.

Senior officials attached with the probe said that every effort was made by the CBI to locate documents and files that were seized during raids earlier.

At the end, the CBI has now informed that some files and documents, mainly recommendation letters of Parliament Members and others, totalling to nearly 150 were still missing, the officials said.

Now the agency awaits a formal complaint from the coal ministry after which a thorough probe will be initiated in the case, the officials said.

The agency cannot register a case unless a complaint is received from the Ministry which would have to concede first that specific files have indeed gone missing and are not in records.