Past Peeve

The SC is already seized of a PIL by advocate ML Sharma, on whose petition the court had, vide order dated 14 September, 2012, directed the coal secretary, Government of India, to file an affidavit on some of these points: (i) The details of guidelines framed by the central government for allocation of subject coal blocks (ii) The process adopted for allocation of subject coal blocks (iii) whether the guidelines contain in-built mechanism to ensure allocation does not lead to distribution of largesse unfairly in the hands of few private companies  (iv) Whether the guidelines were strictly followed and whether by allocation of the subject coal blocks, the objectives of the policy have been realised.