Coal scam: Court asks CBI to be careful while filing documents

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should be careful while filing final reports in cases related to the coal scam and ensure that names of all relevant witnesses and documents are submitted to the court in a proper condition, a special court conducting trial in the cases has said.

The court made the suggestion while allowing the CBI’s plea for adding names of five witnesses and filing some additional documents on record in a coal scam case, in which former Coal Secretary HC Gupta and five others are accused.

Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar allowed the agency’s plea considering that it was one of the initial cases filed in the coal blocks allocation scam and the records were voluminous too. “...I am of the considered opinion that though the CBI ought to have been careful while filing the final report so as to ensure that the names of all relevant witnesses are mentioned and documents are filed in proper condition, but since the present case is one of the initial cases filed in coal block allocation cases and also the records are voluminous so in the interest of justice I allow the application,” the judge said.