A special court on Monday ordered the framing of charges against industrialist Naveen Jindal and four others in a case pertaining to coal block allocation. Special judge Bharat Parashar ordered the framing of charges under Sections 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code against Jindal and the others. The court was hearing a matter pertaining to the allocation of the Urtan North coal block in Madhya Pradesh. It has now put up the matter for July 25 for formally framing the charges against the accused. According to the CBI chargesheet in this case, the accused had misrepresented facts in its January 2007 application before the screening committee responsible for recommending coal block allocation, for obtaining the Madhya Pradesh coal block and hence cheated the coal ministry to get wrongful gains.

Source: The Telegraph July 01, 2019 09:11 UTC