A Special court here on Monday sentenced former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta to three years imprisonment and former Joint Secretary K.S. Kropha to two years jail term in a case related to the allocation of the Lohara East Coal block in Maharashtra
A Special court here on Monday sentenced former Coal Secretary HC Gupta to three years imprisonment and former Joint Secretary K SÂ Kropha to two years jail term in a case related to the allocation of the Lohara East Coal block in Maharashtra. Special CBI Judge Arun Bhardwaj also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Gupta, and Rs 50,000 on Kropha for conspiring to cheat the
The court also awarded two years imprisonment to former joint-Secretary K S. Kropha and four years to director Mukesh Gupta of Nagpur-based firm M/s Grace Industries Ltd in the coal scam case.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday said the coal scam is one of the biggest scams in the country and the impact of this scam is that companies are not coming forward to mine the coal blocks.