The Supreme Court appointed a new judge, Sunaina Sharma, on Monday (January 12, 2026) to conduct the trials in the coal scam cases being probed by the CBI. “We appoint Sunaina Sharma as a special judge (the Prevention of Corruption Act/CBI/coal block allocation cases). The Bench also directed the apex court registry to list the pleas related to the coal scam cases before an appropriate Bench. On April 8, 2025, the Bench had relieved another Special CBI Judge, Arun Bhardwaj, and replaced him with Dheeraj Mor. A total of 29 corruption cases filed by the CBI are currently pending before two special courts set up to try coal scam cases; another 27 cases have been disposed of so far.

Source: The Hindu January 12, 2026 17:29 UTC