darda rajendra

Unhcnowvn public servants allegedly connived
with accused companies for pecuniary gains
Devesh K Pandey
against
Infrastructure
.JAS
Capital Private Ltd. (Kolka-
"False replies were given by
AMR, JAS Infrastructure and
Steel
JLD Yavatmál to queries in
the applications (Nos. 29 and
plication.
30) seeking
North
NEW DELHI: The "unknown"
public servants involved in
the alleged misrepresenta-
ta), its
tions
fact that it had earlier been
previous
by four of the five private
allocated
any,
companies
company also allegedly made
and false claims made
booked
by
the
directors have
been
accused of conspiring with
public servants to conceal the
coal
block
present
their
They
worth," alleged
their net
false
tion
in connection with the
CBI official.
coal
block allocations are sus-
its group companies to show
an inflated
net worth" to
meet the eligibility criteria.
vealedthat
The CBI found that a similar
modus operandi was employed allegedly by AMR Iron &
ters
Steel
Dip
to have either shown
tack of due diligence or connived with the accused companies
for pecuniary gains.
The CBI, which has already
examined
several
govern-
Private
Navbharat
Ltd.
tions
kata) and
for coal block allocabetween
2O06 and
(Nagpur),
Power
Private
(flyderabad) and Vini
ment officials who played a
role in screening the applications
Ltd.
about
Iron & Steel Udyog Ltd. (Kol-
their directors.
In the case of JLD Yavatmal Energy Ltd. (Nagpur)
2009, has alleged that some
public
unknown
servants
and its directors, the agency
overlooked or did not crosscheck details furnished
by
found that they allegedly provided false representations
the accused compafties.
about the group companies
In
the
case
registered
and
earlier
allocations.
also
re-
one of the promoNavbharat
Power
Private Ltd. (Hyderabad), after getting the Rampia and
Side
blocks
sold
in
off
coal
block
in
Jharkhànd.
Following
registration
of
the five cases, the CR! has
conducted
searches at 30
of
Rampia
coal
bai,
Hyderabad, Nagpur, IColRhilai,
Yavatmal,
kata,
Raipur, Ranchi and Dhanbad.
Asserting
that the
cases
had no connection whatsoev-
er
with the Comptroller and
General
report on
Odisha,
allegedly
Auditor
5,000
personal
the coal block allocations,
shares for a whopping Rs. 50
CBI
crore to another private com-
was a follow-up of
preliminary
uing
pany.
ap-
places including Delhi, Mum-
Investigations
of
a
(Kolkata)
Ltd.
The company was
later allocated the Rajhara
status.
misrepresented
also
Central Bureau of Investiga-
pected
representations
The
information on
and if
allocations
Udyog
changed after it filed th
A majority company
official said
the
action
a contin-
the
enquiry
was also purportedly
transferred to the same firm,
whereby the promoters lost
registered to "examine the irregularities, if any, in the al-
control over the company.
It is alleged that the own-
2006-09 on a reference from
the Central Vigilnce Com-
share
"
ership
pattern of Vini Iron &
location of coal
blocks during
mission in June".
10-day CRI custody
for Verma. wife
NEW DELHI: Businessman
Abhishekverma and his
wife Mica Neacsu were on
The sday remanded to
10-day CBI custody by a
court here.
TheCBI sought
their
custody in an Official
Secrets Act case te
question them
for allegedly
possessing Defence
Ministry documents and
supplying them to foreign
nationals.
Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Vidya Prakash
remanded Verma and his
wife to CBI custody till
September14.
Coal. raids spark war of words
between BJP and Congress
Jaiswal: action shows CBI's impartiality; It proves there is wrongdoing: BJP
CEI's action, given its accusa-
"
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: The Congress and
the RIP on 'Fus day put their
own spins on the nationwide
searches and registration of
cases by the Cm in the coal
blocks allocations.
Coal Minister Sriprakash
Jaiswal said the development
established the impartiality
of the investigating agency
and that the government
was
sincere in getting the allocalions investigated and having
responsibility fixed for irregularities. "Ifanybodyisgujity
tion
that the agency was ungovernment's control.
He also indicated that the
agency might conduct further
raids on errant aliottees. The
der the
Minister snw a clever ploy ia
the BIP's cancellation demand since most of the ailoêations were in the BJP-ruled
States. "On the one hand,
they are playing politics with
the cancellation demand. On
the other, they know that
nothingreallywill happenbe-
cause
tile aliottees will go to
a stag."
court and get
of wrongdoing, not only wilt
his allocation be cancelled, he
will also go to jail," he said. In
Mr. Jaiswal said no government could agree to the
wholesale cancellation with-
view of the action underway,
he argued, it made no sense
for the RIP to insist on the
cancellation of all 142 coal
out waning for a decision
from the Inter-Ministerial
block allocations.
RIP spokesperson Prakash
Javdekar struck back, saying
Group and without hearing
out the aliottees, who had the
option of going to court. 'Deallocation is easy, but the
consequences are going to be
the searches only proved his
party's point that there was
wrongdoing in the allocation.
problematic."
The
block, assess the performance
government
need
not
He
said the
which, in turn, had
acted on a complaint from the
take a decision. It could be to
de-aliocate the block or cancel itsbanlc guarantee orissue
it with an advisory."
emerges, we will see the
Prime Minister there. That is
why
asked
we
for
his
resignation."
Mr. Jaiswal asked the RIP
what it had to say nbout the
Minister Sriprakash
Jaiswal speaks to the media outside
PHOTO: PTI
wanted the 1MG to study each
of the aliottees and see what
they
milestones
bad
achieved. "After this, we will
BJP. Mr. Javdekar was confident that the probe would
end at the Prime Minister's
door. "When the full picture
Coal
government
take credit for the searches
which happened at the behest
of the Central Vigilance Commission,
Union
Parliament House in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Mr. .Javdekar said the BJP
wanted the CEI to disclose
the status of all 142 allocations. 'We want to know how
many allottees have started
production,
who
recomthe cases and how
they got the ailocatioos7
mended
Parliament loses yet another day
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: For the 1Qth day,
both Houses of Parliament
could not transact any
business on Tuesday, with
the 13SF continuing to
disrupt the proceedings
seeking Prime Minister
Nianmohan Singh's
'resignation on the coal
bLocks allocation issue,
Members of the DMK.
Amid the din, the Rajya
ATADMK, CPI and the
Sabha passed the MI-India
Viduthalal Chiruthaigai
Katchi demanded that the
Institute of Medical
Sciences (Amendment) Bill,
government send back Sri
Lankan defence personnel
undergoing training in
India. They also opposed
-
the proposed visit of Sri
Laulcan President Maliirida
Rajapaksa to Madhya
Pradesh.
2012 for establishing six
AIIMS-like institutes in
different cities, and the Lok
Sabha approved the
National Institute of
Mental health aiid Neuro
Sciences, Batigalore, Bill
O12.
I was forced by
CBI, says
Talwarsinaid
GHAZIABAD: In a
dramatic turn
of events, a CBI witness and
maid of Rajesh and Nupur
Taiwar on Tuesday told the
special CBI court here that
she was "forced" by the probe
agency to give statements in
the
sensational
Aarushi
Hemraj murder case.
On Monday, the part-time
maid, Bharti Mandal, had told
the courfthat the main doors
of the_ Talwars' house
locked
from
were
inside
on the
morning after the killings.
The revelation
ing
came dur-
her cross-examination by
three
défenèe counsel.
PTI
l?aràs Bhasin'ody:iàs not hacked, claim police
arnPât4
ugh
kirn.sIngh%Ir,do,tantm,, corn
NEW DELHI: Delhi pollee on
Tuesday quoting the prelimi
nary autopsy report, claimed
that Paras Bhasin's body
was
not hacked into pieces
as being
by
cIed
family.
The 23-year-old BBA
stu
family
dent's
had claimed that
hisborwasfoundinmore-J
10
within a kilometre of
the railway track near Pandav
Nagar. But the police cotmtered
that his body was "crushed"
as
being run over by a train and
pieces
was not hacked,
Unhappy with the alleged
-
slow pace of investigation,
l3hasm'sfamily on Tuesdaysaid
they will approach higher
authorities to demand a
probe into the
Sarjay.Jain, DCP (crime and
railways), said, "The body of
_________
-
Faras Bhasin was not cut into
piece& Appantly, itwas mtl
latedafterbeinghitbyatram
l3hasin's family, however,
rejected the police claims as
.
efforts to hush up the matter by
provingitacaseofsuicida "Delhi
police are trying to protect the
fmillyofBha'sijfetowa
threatening him from the post
couple of days. We have decided
to pursue the
case whh higher
"CCTV
footage
from Subhash
Nagar and Laxml
Nagar
/
metro sta
tion has revealed
that Bhasln had
boarded ame
fromsubhasl-,
Pare Bhashi
Nagar at
authorities ahd demand acm
inquiry into the matter," said
Karan, Bhasin's brother-ia-law.
The police also claimed to base
identified the person who had
..-..
--.
3.24
pm
-
-He deboarded it
at Laxmi Nagar at
4.11 pm. Bhasin's
uncle lives In
Ganesh Nagar area
near Pandav Nagar
and he
s proba"
blygoingtohis
house
made around 15 calLs on the
mobile phone ofBhas'm's moth
enAccordingto poliee the caller
is a school boy, who was cross
mg the railway track when he
savabodyIyingtiY'itboy
told us that he found Ehasin's
walletnearthetrack,tookcuta
andniade the calls
onthe number mentioned in the
card," said a senior police ofti
ar Bhasth's family howevci said
c
thatthephone numberonwlich
visiting card,
fl caihwero
ewnotme
tionedonthevisitingeard.
P011CC are planningto seek a
list of trains and the name of
drivers and co-drivers, who
passed the Pandav Nogar area
between 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm on
the fateftil day to find whether
Paras jumped in front of the
train orhe was pushed by some
body, said a police officer
Cong minister, MP, kin in"
nationwide CBI coal raids
SWOOP Politicians Vijay and Rajendra Darda, bizman Jayaswal FIR; Koda hand probed
in
HT Correspondent
a
eItersI,Indijs%arftIrnes con,
NEW XLHt The OBI on Thesday
named Maharnshtra
education
minister Rajendra Darda,
is
eider brother and Congress Rsjya
SthamemberVijayDa
and
Vijay's son Devendra as accused
in one of its five FIRs in the coal
-
along with
scam. All three
CMD of Nagpur-basecl Abhjjit
Group Manoj Jayaswal
-
have
been charged with criminal
conspiracy
and cheating
Afterregistering the FIRs in
coal block allocations between
2006 and 2009, the OBI conductedsearches at 30
locatiora
in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata,
Frtna, Hydeitd, Dhaitad and
F'rom the first batch ofFIRs,
Jayaswal has emerged as a key
accused. Earlier; reports in the
media had suggested that Manoj
Jayaswal was related to Union
coal
minister
Sriprakash
Jaiswal.
When HT contacted
him the minister denied being
related to Manoj.
Dardas and Jayaswal would
be interrogated in the next few
days said CBT officials.
"At least 10 more FIRs will be
flied soon. The next layer of
investigation
ofwill focus on alleagainst retired and
served public servants to see
whether they got bribes for allogations
cating the blocks to ineligible
companies" said a CBI official,
requesting anonymity
Nagput
Coalgute: Congress Pvll kin
in nationwide CBI swoop
CONTINUED
PROM PAGE I
Rajendra Darda clarified that
shares in his family corn
pany, JLD Yavatmal Energy
which was named in
Limited
one of the FIRs -in 2006 and
divested them in 2008. "The
whole thing (coal blocks alloca
he got
-
tion) happened much later, so!
am in no way involved," he told
reporters,
Earlier in the day, Vay Darda
CBI offlcial. The two other
accused companies areV'mi Iron
and Steel Udyog Limited and
Navbharat Power.
While these càrnpanies have
been charged with crirninat
conspiracy to get coal blocks
by fudging their net worth and
lying about experience in coal
mining the ownership pattern
of Vini Iron allegedly changed
after it applied for coal blocks.
toohadrefutedallegationsthat
he was
.Jayaswal
part
of the scam.
could not be reached
for comments,
"Three of the
companies
-
five accused
AMR Iron,
,D
Yavatmal
and
JAS
Infrastructure Capital
are
promoted by more or less the
same group of people," said a
-
It claimed that it had tie
-ups with 15 other companies,
but nine of these denied to
investigators
such
any
relationship.
"Vini Iron is being investi
getedforlinkswfthforrnertalnt
ed
Jharkhand
chief
minister Madhu Koda," said a
CR1 source.
-
Talwars' maid tutored,
àlaim defence lawyer
COUNTER ATTACK CBI junks claims, says her statements hold ground
lthandelwal
"
NEW DEUII: One of the key
ecution witness in the
ó.
Sharti, domestic help of
"Taiwan,
said that she was
Hemraj murder case, the then
domestic help of the Taiwar
called for the first time to
give statements before the
family, Bharti, on Tuesday told
court.
a Ghaziabad court during her
Bharti. had joined the
Taiwars'aweekbeforethe
cross-examinationthatshewas
called for the first time to give
statementsbefore the court She
:,
"
-
summons,
was tutored by the CBi and
She
deniedthat she hadgiven
from the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
But at the same time she said,
-
ever! was explained)."
Bharti, 35, had joined the
Talwars' a week before the
double
murders. Two of her
statements were recorded
under CrPC section 161 in June
2008.
On Monday, Bharti said how
Hemraj
Nupur and
Rajesh Talwar when she was
called inside the flat to look at
Aarushi's body.
With her testimony,
the
Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI)wanted toprove
no intrud
ers were involved and tried
explain the position of the doors
to the flat whetBharti arrived
on May16, 200
.
CR1 special public prosecutor
Bharti denied giving any
pressure from the Central
of
-
I
1
were found in May, 2008.
Bureau of Investigation.
ed the reactions
statements.
R K SA1NI
CBipubllcprosecutor
bodies
RK Saini said Bharti stood by
wrong statements under
was not a trustworthy
witness
pressure
"Jo samjhaya gays wa/il bayan
de r&d hu (I am saying what
_____
" Aarushi and
Defence lawyer Manoj
shishodia claimed Bhartl
any wrong statements under
_
double murders
said she had not received any
çe
fl
is uneducated and\
may not have understood'
I
technical language.
Imorovements can always
be done on CrPC 161 I
"[l];li]Uri}1l1i1lj
payush.khandoIwaI®IiIndustanIIm,scorn
her statements givenbefore the
-
court during her examination
Manoj
the washroom during lunch on
Tuesday.
before the court for the first time
on Monday.
Defence
lawyer
Shishodia claimed Bharti "was
tutored by the CR! and not a
trustworthy witness". The
on Monday.
Saini said she being a prose
cution witness was accompa-
nied by a woman constable to
claimedthatBharti
Saint saidher summons was
received by her brother-in-law
as she was out for work.
never stated anything before
the CR1 and none of her state
ments were recorded earlier,
not have understood technical
language. Improvements can
They also alleged that that
alwaysbe doneon CrPC l6lstate-
defence also
"She
is uneducated and may
she openedthe outergrille door
of the Talwars' residence on
, cross
During Tuesdays
examination, Bharti told the
May 16, 2008. She also narrat
during lunch break, Bharti was
whisked away by the CR1.
storyandstoodbyherMonday's
court that she gave statements
Reacting to the defence claims,
statements," Saini added.
ments. She has not changed her
CBI charges
Amit Shah,
Geeta John
with murder
FAKE ENCOUNTER The two along
with other top cops have been accused
of criminal conspiracy in Prajapati case
HT Correspondent
S IetIers@hIndustantIme
corn
t1EDABAftTheCBIhaseharge
sheeted former Gujarat minis-
ter of state for home Amit Shah,
serving additional director genera! of police Geeta John, former DGP PC Pande, former
additional DGP OP Mathur and
16 other police officers in the
Tulsiram
Prajapati
fake
encounter case of 2006.
"Shah, John, Pande and oth-
ers
have been booked for the
qffences of criminal conspiracy,
Murder, destruction of evidence
and offences under the Arms
Act," a CBI press release said.
Prajapati, a crucial eyewitin the Sohrabuddin Sheilch
ness
-
Amit
Shah
m Dec2006: Gujarat
Police kill Tulsiram
Prajapati, sole eyewit-
ness to
staged killing of
gangster Sohrabuddin
Sheikh
and his wife
fake encounter in case, was
bumped off in a staged shootout
Kauseraiin Nov2005
by a joint team of the Gujarat
'Jan2010: Sc hands
and Rujasthan police forces near
Danta town in north Gujarat in
over Sohrabuddin probe
to Cal, slams police for
December 2006.
The chargesheet was filed in
ajudicial magistrate's court in
Danta. Amit Shah's lawyer
Mitesh Amin, however, raised
an objection, saying that the
court does not have any juris-
diction to accept
the
on September10.
Shah, a trusted lieutenant of
Gujarat chief minister Narendra
Modi, was arrested by the CR1
in July 2010 during the probe
into the Sohrabuddin fake
encounter in November 2005.
is currently out on bail but
lie
Supreme
Court
has
restrained him from eatering
Gujarat.
The CR1 has charged him for
conspiring with police officials
to abduct
gangster
July 2020:
arrests
"Amit
Shah after naming
CBI
him as kingpin of entire
conspiracy Involving
triple murder.
CBJ
chargesheet. The court will now
conduct a hearing on the issue
the
shoddy probe to shield
the powerful accused
Sohra-
them in staged shootout.
Shah has also been charged
with running an extortion rack-
et with police officials using
gangsters like Sohrabuddin.
Pande, John, Mathur and
deputy superintendent of police
RK Patel have essentially been
booked because they tried to
mislead the CBI probe by
"delinking the Sohrabuddin and
Tulsiram Prajapati cases, which
are connected and are part of
the larger conspiracy involving
a nexus between the police and
buddin, his wife Kauser Bi and
politicians from Gujarat and
his accomplice Tulsiram and kill
Rajasthan," the GB! said.
BJP names Cong
leaders as coal
scam beneficiaries
HI Correspondent
NEW DELHI:A combative BJP
geared up for a nationwide
cam-
paign
after Parliament session
ended this week. On Tuesday,
leader of opposition in Lok
Sabha Sushma Swaraj Swaraj
alleged that the benefits of coal
block allocations had gone to
several key Congress
leaders.
"Coal block has been allocated to Naveen Tmdal. People like
Subodh Kant Sahay and Moti
Lal Vohra had given their
reeto private parties,"
she told party workers here.
Swa's fresh allegations came
onm-iendation
as Rip claimed the CBI raids frito
the conbiversial allocations were
due to its campaign and maintained it vindicates
the party
stand that there was wrongdoing by the UPA government
PARTY CLAIMED THE CBI
RAIDS WERE DUE TO ITS
CAMPAIGN AND SAID IT
VINDICATES PARTY'S
STAND THAT THERE WAS
scams like GAG, 2G and now
coal, it seems government is trying to break its own previous
records in conducting scams,"
she alleged.
"When we ask the
Prime
Minister why he does not want
to cancel these allocations, he
says it would result in loss of
GDP and revenue to the public
exchequer. But no mining activity has been conducted in these
blocks, so where did the money
go finally if not to the Congress
ldtty?" she asked.
Justi4ng her party's role in
stalling Pafliament, Swaraj asked
BJP workers to go across the
Swaraj also referred to the
cancellation ofpetrol pumps dur-
country to spread the word that
the screening committee set by
the government to allocate these
reports of alleged seam. "It is
not the tb-st time that such allocations will be cancelled. We
blocks had formed joint ventures
wonder what vested interest this
government has," she said.
BJP spokesperson Prakash
on its own and claimed that huge
sum of money was exchanged
during the process.
ing
the
NDA regime
after
money) was exchanged during
Javadekar said, "These raids
CBI...is
based on our complaint.These
the JVs, which were formed by
the screening committee. With
raids by CBI are not happening
due to the government"
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maal (huge sum of
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coa Igate
firms under
CBI scanner
One of them belongs to
Congress MIP Vijay Darda
NEW DELHI: As the
coalgate
controversy continued to
rage, the CBI on Tuesday
registered
cases
against five
private companies, their
representatives and
unidentified public servants in connection with alleged irregu-
larities in the allocation of
coal blocks.
The agency named Congress
MPVijayDardaand his
brother
RajendraDardu, aMahanS
minister, in one of the First
formation
In-
Reports (FIRs). After
registering theFIRs the central
probe
agency raided nearly 30
places in Ii cities
across the
registering a Preliminary Enquiry to examine
irregulari-
'
ties, if any, in allocation of coal
blocks during the period 200609" on a reference from Central Vigilance
Commission
(CVC) in June this year.
The companies and
representatives
their
thathave been
named by the agency in FIRs
include AMR Iron & Steel Private Limited based in Nagpur
and its directors
Arvind Kumar
Jayaswal, Manoj
Jayaswal,
Ramesh Jayaswaj and Devendra Darda.
Another company booked
by the CBI—JLD
Yavatmal Energy Limited, also
-
based in
has Congress MI'
the Darda as one of its directors.
companies", which,
according The other directors of the
comto the CBI, "made false claims" pany
named by the agency into acquire coal blocks. Many
clude Rajendra Darda,
Devenpremises of private companies
dra Darda, Manoj Jayaswal,
and government officials
were
Anand Jayaswa] and Abhishek
raided by CBJ sleuths in
Jayaswal. Vini Iron &
Delhi,
Steel
Mumbai, t'atna, Hyderabad, Udyog
Limited based in
country and collected "incriminating evidence against
Koikata, Dhanbad, Raiptrn Yavatmal, Ranchi and Bbilai
The countly'sprenijermy
tigative
agency booked the
companies three months after
Nagpur
Kolkata is another company
that has been booked
by the
investigating agenqc
* Coalgate,
Page 7
-
Related reports, Page 7
Five coaIgate
firms under
CBI scanner
Coalgate, from Pages
The
company
officials
nndCblbitheF'Jflincluded
i
I
its directors
I
-
Sanjeev Kumar
Prashant Tulsyan,
Vaibhav Tulsyan, Nisha ml
syan, Vimal Kumar Tulsyan,
Tulsyan,
Nirmala Ibisyan, Hernant KuAggarwal and Navin Ku
mar Tulsyan, Chartered Ac-
i
mar
I
countant of the company.
However, Vaibhav Tulsyan,
I
whose office and home were
also raided by CDI officials,
claimed he had sold the cornpanytoaclose
aide of the then
JharkhandchiefrninisterMadhuKoda,
MI do not know why the
senrchesaretaidngplaceatmy
office and home.Ihave sold the
company live months before
coal block allocations. Iwas not
the beneficiary allottee. My
onlyfaultwasthatlwnstheapplicantfor coal blocks.
'Because of Naxal problem,
we were not able to run the
company, so when V
jay Joshi,
who was close aide of fonner
chief minister Madhu Koda,
approached us with a good offer, we sold the company to
him. At the time coal block allocation, the company was already with Joshi," Tulsyan told
PTl
Viol Iron & Steel UdyogLim-
ited was
given Rajhara North
coal block in Jharkhand for the
extraction of mineral, Iblsyan
was one of the directors when
the application was moved for
coal block allocation and he
was the signatory on the appli-
cation, Other companies and
their representatives booked
byCflhinciude -JASinfrastructure Capital Private Ltd based
in Kolkata and its directors
Manoj Kumar Jayaswal, Abhishek Jayaswal, and Anand
Jayaswal and Navbharat Power
Private Limited, a Hyderabad
based company and its directors P Thvikrana Prasad and
Y 1-larish Chandra Prasad.
-
BJP
continues offensive
Even after CDI, probing the
cases in the
issue, the main opposition par-
matter registered
continued its attack on
the Congress and its leaders,
Leader ofOpposition in Lok
ty-BJP
Sabha Sushma Swaraj alleged
involvement of various Congress leaders inthe controversy
as she saidthat "coal block has
been allocated to Naveen 3mdal. Congress leaders like Subodh Kant Sahay and Moti Lal
Vohra had given their recommendation to private parties".
fliP spokesperson Prakash
Javadekar reiterated that
Prime Minister should resign
since he as coal minister had
signed on each allotments that
are under agency scanner.
DH News Service
I
Gloating BJP targets PM
NEW DELHI Buoyed by the
CBI registering five cases
which formedthe basis of the
against coal scam beneficiaries including Congress Ml' Vi-
scam", the RiP Rajya Sabha
MP, who along with his col-
jay Darda,an
league Hansraj Ahir had filed
CR1 probe in the coalgate
elated 11W on
it, said. BJP secretary Kirit SoinMumbai said, 'The
Thesday demanded that the
Prime Minister should resign
maiya
now, since he as coal minister
firms to which Dardas
had signed orders for allot-
Jayaswals are
ments that are under agency
scanner.
BJP spokesperson Prakash
Javadekar told reporters that
the CBI probe proved that
there was wrongdoing in the
Manmohan Slngh
of the
RiP's
lions on the scam in the next
couple of days. However, Coal
minister Sriprakash
Jaiswal
took on the Opposition.
'
who allege CR! works
allocation of coal blocks and it
ffThose
was Prime Minister Manrnohan Singh, who as a coal mm-
on government instructions,
they should answer now, how
ister, had signed
they feel about the CR! aclion?" Jaiswal said.
on papers
giving mining rights to private
companies.
"The government might
The party is planning to
come up with
more revela
take the credit, but it was on
our complaint to the CVC
and
linked are eight
total 142 allocations and
main focus is on all the
142",
Though the RIP may feel
have vindistand ofloot of nat-
that the CR1 cases
cated their
ural resources but they were
also cautiouss given the fact
that the premier investigating
agency comes under the
Prime Minister also holds the
charge of ministry of personnel.
DH News Service
:
searches
5 offices in AP
Coalgate CBIteam
Private coal & steel firms quizzed
HVDERABAD: The coalgate
tioned him on any
crisis had Its reverberations
in Hyderabad as investiga
tionteamsfrom Delhi on
Thesday. "There were reports
Thesday visited offices at
tioning me on the coalgate is-
five locations
here and
In
quired about a few private
coat and steel companies
with regard to allotment of
coat blocks.
the Central Ru
reau ofInvestigation (CB!) said
that these visits were totallyin
formal and no notices were
served or any officials quizzed
onrecord about the controver
sial issue. On a day when CR1
Sources in
teams were fanning across 10
major cities across the country
in connection with the alleged
allocation of coal
blocks, one of the CE! teams is
reported to have questioned
former Union Minister of State
for Coal, Dasari Narayana Rao,
at his Moinabad farmhouse
here.
Even though there were un
confirmed reports of raids on
the premises of GVK Power
and NSL Power on Thesday,
spokespersons of both the
firms. have denied any Cu!
teams visiting their offices.
The GVK group has a cap
five mine in Jharkhandand the
NSL has two mines in Odisha
fraud in
and Chhattisgarh.
However, the veteran actor
Rao in a letter re
leased to the press said that no
one including the CR! ques
and director,
in
the electronic
sleuths have
CBI
issue on
media that
been ques
sue. I would like to inform my
fans andwellwishersthatnothing like that has happened;' he
said.
Equallytight lippedwere the
local CR! officials. "Our responsibility is to provide logistics to
the CR! teams and we have
nothing to do with the details
of their itinerary' a senior officer said.
Rao, however, is believed to
have said in private circles that
though he participated in some
of the coal auction meetings,
"finaldecisionwasmadebythe
PMO
officia1s'
"We only did
thejob of a postman," Rao told
some ifim journalists recently
when asked to comment on the
coalgate.
In the early stages of the ex
of irregularities in coal
posure
allocation,
spokesperson
BJP
official
Prakash
Javadekar had blamed it on
Ran for the allocation of coal
blocksandaflegedthatthevet-
eran actor had mortgaged na
tional interests. "Both the mm-
isters of state had misled the
prime minister and that,
Narayan Rao had attended
most of the meetings in which
allocation of the coal blocks
was finalised".
DH News Service
CBI forced me to depose: Taiwar's
maid
GHAZ!ABAD, P1]: Inadramat
maid, Bharti Mandal, had told
Rharti, 35,told the court that
Ic turn of events, a CBI witness
and maid of Rajesh and Nupur
Thlwaron Thesday told the spe-
the court that the main doors
"Jam deposing what ever was
taught to me by the CBF'.
cial CBI court here that she
was
"forced" by the probe
agency
to give statements in the sensationalAarushi-Hemraj
mur-
der case.
On Monday, the part-time
of the
Taiwars' house were
locked from inside on the
morning after the killings.
The revelation came during
her cross-examination by three
After her disclosure, the
probe
agency's counsel took
Bharti outside
the court,
defence counsel, including one
prompting Shishodia to move
an application seeking action
of the counsel for the Thiwars,
against the CBI official who
Manoj Sishodia.
took away the witness.
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N CBI files
5 cases in coal scam &
set to question MP Vijay Darda
i
MAIL TODAY scooped plans
for action against firms
'COAL RAIDS
SINGE CONG
to B) VUay Darda, Madhu Koda
businessman Manoj Jayaswal
(FromI.
and
By
Abhlshek Rhatla
in New Delhi
-
Five FIRs and counting
that's the status of the CR1
probe into the irregularities
in coat block allocations.
The agency has unnerved several
political blgwigs with its first batch
of FIRs and countrywide raids. The
second set, threatening to expose
many more companies, Is likely
within a fortnight.
Vijay Darda, a Rajya Sahha MP from the
Congress, has been named along with his
brother, Rajendra Darda, the education
minister in Maharaslira, in one of the live
cases.
Highly placed sources said soon the two
brothers will be questioned by the agency
for the alleged Irregularities committed by
their company
ThD Yavatmal Energy
limitedbased In Nagpur. The company was
-
allocated
Fatehpur East coal block In
Chhattisgarh. Msn. TODAY has learnt that
the Daniafamily has stakes inanothercom-
-
JAS Inlrastnicture Capital Private
pany
limited based In Kolkata
which is named
In the FIRS. JAS Infrastructure was allocatedMuhagarhicoal block in Jbarkbar,d.
Turn to
-
Page 12
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Cong in raid hot
-
Manoj Jayaswal (left) with Rajya Sabba MP Vijay Darda
Continued from Page I
C'
were
Common link
Businessman Hanoi sayaswal,
whose Abhljeet Infrastructure
also allocated coalblocks Is
being seen as the lmchp'm ofthe
scam, He has been named u tt-s-ee
of the five FIBs that the agency
filed on tuesday
CIII sources said ktanoj is s
moter for Bards's companies
at) Yavatmal and AMES Iron &
Steel Private IJn'Atcd
--
is related to
-
Sriprakash
Jalswal through marital tics.
He
dthfnthwhichwas
allocated two blocks in ChhattisgndOn1551a
in whose family
Ssiprakash'sdaughteriamas-ried
When asked about his relation
shlpwithManoj,Ssiprakashaaid:
'FOap/saikyaiaiswa/Moo tlsit
ash, to be ajaiawal)?"
Vijay Bards and Hanoi are
reported to he good family friends.
The Dardas and the Jayaswals
between them hold 50 per cent
equity each In JLD Ynvatmal
Energy, one of the companies
businessman,
ggressive
Manoj and his family cornered
eight out of the 57 coal blocks
allotted heiween 1006 and 2009.
For this they used five different
jeopardise electrldty gwnerationm
the country
The CE! began its Inquiry in
June this year after the Central
Vlinlance Commission tCVC) rec
olnmendedathorough probe into
the allocation of coal No ks
between 2006 and 2009, when
Prune MsnssterManmohao Stngb
held the additional charge of the
coalrnlnlstiy.
entities—Abhlleetinftastructure,
lAg
Infrastructure
Capital,
JayaswalNeco, Corporate Iapat&
Alloys and /1.1) Ynvatmal Energy.
Manoj'a prodsnity
with political
is well known. At a wed
dingreceptionhostedbyhisn,sen
br leaders, including HJP preai,
dent Nitin Gadkasi, Delhi chief
minister Sheila' Dikshit, B/P
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location, the government is not
willing to relent
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forcanceilationofcoalblock alSo
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the show. He said the finnaaaociatad with his son met all
the parameters for the coalblock allocation.
Commenting on Bards's alleged Involvement in the
scant 510100 coal minister Siiprakash Jalawal aaid: "If
anyone has resorted to such wrongdoing then not only
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group Ca
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At the AICC mediabriefing, the Cong
ressclrculateda note accusing Gujarat
diately move court and get rellet
Jalswal aliegedthe BJPwasdemand
chiefmlnisteritarendraMod! of beIng
Ing wholesale cancellationof
opposed to auctioning of
coal
coal blocks.
The note cites Modi's statement at a
biockswlthadeslgntoactuallybenem
the prlvatecon,paniesandatthesame
conferenceofpowermlnlstersln200l,
time further its polItical gains. He said
The SiP, on Its part, IntensIfied Its
thegovensmentwasonstrongground onslaught on the Congress, targeting
andwasreadytoansweranyqueryon
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Csrsrilsonthe Coal Scam.
"JLD-'Yavatmal Energy Ltd (one of the
fins*snamedlntherifl)iscontrolled?jy
Darda and ,JalswaI's relatives, It was
formedIn 2006 to exploIt a lucrative
coalblock at Fateispur In Chhattlsgath,'
SiP national secretary Grit Somalya
sold. 'Theyaiso formed other compa
niet like MS Infrastructure and Power
Ltd(a
part oftheAbhljeeteowergroup)
with its regIstered oflice at Kolkata."
SiP leader Hansraj Astir, whose coinplaint to
the cAG and CC blew the lid
accused congress p01151
on the
scam,
clans of making a killing through the
aIlocationofcoalblocks "Therelatives
of many Congress leaders benefited.
Even formerministertofstate for coal
mlsusedthelrposltlons. healleged.
CBI names
Modiaide
AmitShah in
chargesheet
FORMER Gujarat minister Amit
Shah, a close aide otchief minister Narendra
Modi, was
among 20 people named by
the CDI in its chargesheet in
Prajapati
Tuisi
fake
encounter case, accusing him
of criminal conspiracy and
the
destruction of evidence.
Former state police chief P.C.
Pande, iFS officers OP. Mathur,
D.G. Vanzara and Geetha John
and deputy SP R.K. Patel are
also named In the chargesheet
submitted in the court at Danta
In Danaskantha district.
The chargesheet,
however,
was not taken on record by
the court because ofJunlsdic-
tion
issues. The court
will take
up the matter on Monday.
Prajapati, an eyewitness in
encounter of Sohrabud-
the
din Sheikh, was kiiied
in a fake
by the
Gujarat Poiice at Chhapri in
Banaskantha
district
on
encounter,aiiegediy
December 28, 2006.
20 chargesheéted In
Prajapati fake killing
in a major blow to the rul-
BJP,
Shah, who
was
by the CM for his
role in the Sheikh encounter
ing
arrested
case In 2010, has now been
charged In the second fake
encounter case of Prajapati
for murder, criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence
as also under the provisions
of Arms Act.
Shah is out on bail in the
Sheikh encounter case but has
been barred from entering
Gujarat by the Supreme Court.
Former DGP Pande, who was
widely criticised for his role
as
police
commissioner
of
during the 2002
riots, has also been made an
Ahmedabad
accused in the case. Pande
was chief of the state police
when the encounter took
place in 2006.
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Táke Coalgatc cases to
their logical
conclusion
CENTRAL Bureau of Investigation's
move to register cases against five companies
should signal the Union government's seriousness in going after those who benefited illegally
fflm the allocation of coal blocks during the
2005-9 period.
THE
As the MAIL TODAY had been first to report,
action against these companies for cheating
and criminal conspiracy had been
coming for
some days now. The raids qt 30 locations
across ten cities that the CBI conducted on
Tuesday finauy sets the law into
motion in a
controversy that has disrupted the Monsoo
session of Parliament.
It is highly significant that Congress
MP Vijay
figures as an accused in one of
the cases. Mr Darda set
up a company in partnership with one Manoj Jayaswai, a
businessrelated to Union Coal Minister Sriprakash
Darda's name
man
Jaiswal. Incidentally, Manoj Jaiswal's businesses won eight coal blocks. Then there is
Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahai who lobbied the Prime Minister's Office for
award of a
block to a company with which his brother was
associated.
The onus is now on the CDI to follow
these
and estabflgh if any wrongdoing was committed by politicians or
bureaucrats to swing the
trails
deal in favour of certain companies. Significantly, the agency is yet to name
any government functionary besides Vijay Darda
and his
brother Rajendra Darda
a minister in Maha-
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But if hope has risen of the guilty in this affair
being punished, it has been only due to the
intervention of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders
Prakash
Javdelcar and HansraJ Ahir who
of flawed coal allocation to
the notice of the Central Vigilance Commission.
Their party too deserves credit for bringing the
brought
the issue
issue to political centrestage. Unfortunately,
the same cannot be said of its strategy to stall
Parliament in this connection.
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INTELLIGENCE
Nechal Sandhu
Bureau (IB) chief
will be playing host
to the big ticket event hosted by
the Intelligence Bureau at the
DGP/iGP's conference scheduled
for
September 6-8.
The conference was first organised
in 1920 by the IS, and since then It is
the key event on the agency's calen
den Sandhu, who Is a perfectionist,
has
ensured a crack team to look
after the arrangements.
While the
home minister will Inaugurate the
conference, Prime Minister Manmohan Slngh will address the top cops.
The meetlng wlll provide
an
opportunity to the police chiefs and
security administrators to discuss
national security-related issues.
Offers in store
WHILE
the
CW
Director A.E Singh is
making sure that the
agency moves proacon the Coal-
tively
gate investigations,
the buzz is that he Is
set for a post-retirement assignment.
Singh may follow
In the footsteps of
former CBI Director BC. Sharma and make it to the
National Human Rights Commission as a member.
The post has many perks, including
a
bungalow in the Lutyen's Delhi. While
Slngh is still mulling over the option by
the time his term wds there may some
other offers In stOre as well.
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Ghazlabäd, Sept. 4: In a
dramatic turn of events a
Clii wltness and neid of
Rajesh and Nupur Taiwar
an Tuesday told Ute special
CBI caurt hera that she
was "forced" by the probe
agency ta give statemonts
in the sensational Aarushi
Hemraj murder case. On
Monday,
part-time
the
neid, Bhartl Mandal, heU
told the court that the
naln'doors of Ute Taiwars'
houso were lccked fron
inside
an Ute morning
after the kilhings. The rove
latlon camcduring
during her
cross-examination
by
three
defence
caunsel,
incinding one er the conn
cd tor the Talwars, Manoj
Sishodia. Bharti,
35,
told
the court that '1 am depos"
Ing what ever was taught
tone by the CBITM.
After her diselosure, the
probe
agency's
counsel
took Bharti outslde Ute
prompting
caurt
Shlshodia
to move an apptication
seeking action against the
Clix cifielal who took away
the
witness.
The court
reserved the order on the
appiicatlon, 'The wittess
Is tutored She did not give
dep6se:'TaLlwar maid
to
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This te the fit-st time she Is
deposing before the caurt..
Whatever she was taught
by the Clii.. whatever the
witness depesed before the
court in her examination,
Aarushl
she UIU not give those state
ments before the CBI.. She
replted on every questton
In the cross examinatinn,'
Shlshodia said.
Bhartl in her eross-exarn
ination told the court that
ehe did not receive any
summons and never saw
any Clii officerand na on
came to her house. She was
cafled tot the fit-st Urne ta
give a statement before the
Court frsterday, the neid
seid. She also sald in her
deositlon that her "hus
band's name is Vishnu
Mandai" and not! Bhln
Singh
as per ftie Clii
recorde.
During the cross exaini
nation, when the defence
caunsel
asked
Bharti
gave any
whether
she
statement to the Clii ta the
effect that she heU been llv"
mg in Nolde tor 0 to 9
years, she answered thät
she did not give any state-
ment like that
"1 do not know why the
CBI has written my statenent to the effeet that 1
have beet living In Noida
area tor about Bto9 years,"
Bhartl sald during her
cross exarninatlon
She deposed bofore the
ceurt that ehe UM not give
statement to Investigation
ofl'icerthatsherangupthe
Otter door beil once aM
went ta litt Ute washing
cinth fron Ute staircasa
but ehe gave this statement
"before Ute camera".
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firms in FlRs
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CORRESPONDENfI
NEW DELIII/RAIpLJRj
MUMBAI, SEPT. 4
Mumbai and
sources
said.
officials also recovered incriminating documents which are being
scrutinised.
Hyderabad,
The CBI on Tuesday regis
tered multiple FIRs against
five
companies Ihr aileged
criminal conspiracy to get
coal blocks by allegedly
fudging their net worth fig
ures and misrepresenta
tion of facts. The agency
nanied 20 directors of the
private
companies, includ
Congress
MP Vijay
Darda, and unlrnown gov
mg
ernment olTiciajs in five
FIRs filed in connection,
with the Coalgate scam.
According to sources, Um
companies
CRI
include
Energy
booked
by the
JLD Yavatmal
Ltd,
which
Mr Darda was a
ditctor), JAS Infrastj-uc
ture
Capital
Pvt.
Ltd
(Kolkata), AMR Iron and
Steel
Ltd
(Nagpur),
itattitir; Dtlan%li»Räiibhi,
fle CBI will register at
least 10 more FIRs against
certain private companies
which are under the scanner of the CBI, sources said,
adding
that
the
Enforcement Directorate's
assistance will also be
taken.
The cases have been reg
istered in conneetion with
allegations related to get
sentations and connivance
or lack of due dlligence on
the part of public servants,
Navbharat
"Immediately after regis
tering FIRs, the agency
sleuths conducted searches
at 30 locations in Nagpur,
Kolkata BhiJa, Yavatmal.
Agency
ting coal blocks allocated
on the basis of misrepresentatioh and false claims
in the applicatjons aral pre-
Nagpur-(in
Power Pvt. Ltd
(I{yderabad) and Vini Iran
and
Steel
Udyog
Ltd
(Kolkata).
Delhi,"
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sources said. Investigation
has revealed that the
promoters of these companies
ailegedly sold their stakes
in. an irregular manner
after allocation of coal
blocks," said a senior Cm
official.
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VERtIA, WIFE SENT
TO 10-DAV CUSTODY
New Deihl: Businessmn
Abhishek Verma and I,is
Romanian wife were an
Tuesday remanded to CBI
custody tor 10 days by a
City court tor their questioning
tor altegediy
pos-
defence ministry's
seeret documents and supsessing
ptylng
them to foreign
nationals. Chief metropoll-,
tan magistrate Vidya
remanded Verma
and bis wite to CBI custody
till September 14. The CBI
Prakash
bad registered
a fresh case
agalnst bot
ot them on
August 28 under the
Official
Secrets
Act.
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Coal .r.
minister.
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Jaiswa 1
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accused Ilse 19P of hav
retary
in
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Kamatakaff lx
sog on m 5500 esocellaiion
Oharm odra
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of coal blocks in actuatiy
has rcov d 111010
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bonefit the privotte corn
pootflomhlspariy
abt
paoies
and furihor los
leadei
on his ! mark
pol!tical gains
al Ilse arno
that no
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govern
flone.
mono ‚ !ncludlng ilse 1330
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gooornm ni In Ors a.
tion policy 1w tod !t
vereatfsoltforreom
mending Clsc Centre Co
was ii ‚cc per cent
cc et
policy. Tlaere ceuta not bo
alleoste coalblocks inpro
o helter policy ilaata Ihac.
viii playera. Worse hai
On a das', when Ih qnt
pleading hat drawncrita
los-cd
live
rase
in
ca
m from varleus rar
reh
conn dion
wi h
Cla
des
iallaged
San na
Ilocation
oh real min
and ren
to nla wroeagdoing, theo
ductad acer h
in nearly
not onla hin oal block
SO Pl
5
the roun
alle Ilon will ha
iry, Mi 3
w iaadlc cd called hut ha will be m
mote
a non wa
isa Ilse
ii. 1 Lan guarantee you,
eßbse,
ha
Id hesa aeked abeut
CRI has ceaadsscied Ilse
RISC cli re th 1 co 1
raida. -.1 am
not ehe blocks hase boeaa allomed
epokeaperaon oh C81...We
in allansi madry anclud
hope ttaere will ha
mora
mg those in he iery aasd
againat whom CRI will
si In buln a
lale actaon," Mc Jaa wal
hy ilse eoal
1d
.
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Ilse
Congre
MP Voa Barth
wich
on
comp ny
5 na t whach liaeCbth
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ihm
one ha cc riad
1
1
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Ccii minister Srmprakaah
Jobwal ml Porlmomant
Houae an friday,
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wiCh the ceol ocam be New Qelha
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damanding cancelhtien er
taew 011141, SEPT, 4
allecaliona iaad Probe Sisto
Ahleging
lisa?
Uniois
Uaa iaaaae.
Inuriem minister Subotlhs"
fle RIS. which haadecid
Saat Sahay aal seasior
°cd ta lasaaach
nation wffie
proteot agalnat Ilse acer'
Cengreta leider Mali -,Lii
tohra bad receasalaended a-aaps
deeds'
eh
the
Congrest-led IISA alter ehe
her private parties In ges
ooii blocks agocations, lhe
Menaoon
Session
ob
parliament enda, hai aaked
main Opposition B,JP on
Ttaa clay
reiterated ila ehe party saUre .10 gear
dem, od ob Prima Miasiter-,, ileeaf up Ihr a, 'aoaaialned
Manasaeheas Suisgh'e resig
ballte": md anis theo
naudss oser irregularities
seivea wich login md fada
rogardiasg 'coal-gatct iscoae.
In
coal illocaihona. 'Abc
party also elaimed Isst Ilse
teil block hai heenall<
CRI raails, mb the contro
catad 10 Naveen 'linda!,
vrea
luorataons ob mal
Peopar lila Saabedis Kant
ha
LlLyphra
lee-an dpe errlts ans
‚ shay so M
haal,gteat Iheir rscoraaaaeca.
pagn. man slo%ng Isa t
vmdaegta,aQse,aat"a
land ‚4an ja private prmr
se-rengd aasg
mal lhea'e w
/Ime
Wo will centisssse <er
by Ilse UI A
proteottill llsesesllecataona
goe romoaat na
Same'
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sour
also
s
Greup
os
ire
MG
a much
crjiaa
=
?5aI°l
las
caaeapeamale
Clllofflcialsalaoconduct
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so
Development
Mineral
Corp. Ltd.
Tlse police, how
od searchse at aaseriha Steol
evem, foiled eheir altessspl..
ansi Infraatructure Post, Ltd
Soaia'res aaid Ilsal an ono oh
baaed in Nariman Pohl.
Ilse FIRs. Conga-esa MP
Vihay Dardaa
higaares
Mumbai. CRI othiciala from
name
Mumbai refuaed 10 rom
aa
5
direciom in JLI)
inmciii
mciii on Ilse
whcn
Yavatmal ltnergy
ltnergy .. Ltd
Ltd
Yavatmal
on Ilse aaseae
aaseae whcn
conlacesd Wo art natron
which gei Ilse Fotshpur
devolep
cerssed wich ilse
Esel
Coal
Block
in
Chhattiagarh in lhae allegsd
meist and caasasot dom
capital.
rnent' aaad a top CIII am
crtaaainal roaaaptraey by
10 Ilse Prame
Reforring
miarepresentaiion
ccc.
ob fads
Minister reply last weelt
elagability cendaaaona.
Chhahtlegarh,
In
CIII
oft
over Ilse leine, where he
aleulha conducted searclsea
Tise aeency hai narned
omplei
reeited a
at she officee ob certain
bios. along with hi
sen
saysng
ccsaaapsniea in Ilse diotricis
that bio silence je bester
Ilovendraand other farmer
Ihan ihnaasand qusstiesss,
present
directore,
eh Rilpaam, linie, Ragarb,
ansi
inoloding Rajesselra Parda.
Champa'Janjgir.
Mi Suahma Swaraj saU,
ansi
'Ilecannoteacape
"Ageney elTicials wo pa-ob
Manoj
iayaswsl,
osir
Assaasd
queatieasa
hy
rettung
.Jayaawal
aassl Ahlalshelc
Ing ah these eoansaaniop aa'a
.layaswaU alowevar Volk;
germine beneüciarids' ob
pisana. 11* tone simm as
iasg to repariert,
which Congresa party sud
coal block allocationa or
Mr Baa'dac
Prime Minister aredirecsly
reaorsed In manspaslauoma,
reftitsa
mc allegitacaiht
againat hian.
in Ilse deck,"
bitte bsaaaalelaine hasse inlTor
cancelled. llavernmant
muai aasneuasce stachen Co
pmve ihat ehe ascusey autob
jareeinias allocataosa hai sei
Inne tote Ilse kiliy cl
party,"
Congreea
aaid
l.oatler
IlseOpposition
Opposition
l.oatlerer
er Ilse
in
Lok Ssblsa Soshaas Sworaj.
party
whlle adda'eeeing
wo-leer» in ehe nalional
AGECORRESPONDENT
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coal N Ic
CBI off' als.
arcbed he office ol
Le
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Pfflt4MBANOYOPADHYAV
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ORRESPONDENTS
DELHI/RAIPOrV
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nances
Vorn)
private
Tuesday.
'
r.
lovestuation.
hve
Road in Raipor. Th com
r vSed th t
ram co
pany Plans tO osiahl lt
all edly S! mtl
thormal power plant
In
Pan!
Chhaiiiagarh
0! !nOrSndUfll
St onder
anti
h
iandmg tot
ropododdy bonn allocaied
all pc soda
v!tb 0 00!
50l comp
enol block
In Fathepor
mc antl acl
d ilstir equst
Ita 1, Ralgarh disirsot.
ii project mmd Fasan lal
Me nwh!l
Ilse
Ch ttoag rh
governme,fl
Talon 11eUmeisph
c
!nn
fr col blockj ca Tu
ap relasod Ilse
er
sasd.
0510
of osten companaca
10 Ilse ca
ef Nv Phar t
ah t ii ccc alle
tcl coal
Vow r Pvi Lid, wlaich hd
Mc k in laie
etc even
laouga! lii y
ha
d u cual aale k 1
.ea
noi
onviaendsdbyth
Oris
—. the ag
tat ha
tal 50v
enly
slapped eh aornm n
pper nta 10 0
cla atang Th
robora
lii r ‚iii atton
ncy ha
rigularitt
amp ny
ii
uiod 1
0
comn"ttad
dir etor
P Travakraana
1w eh UIA
venarn 01 10
allottajag real bio 1
Pra aU atarl
Hars h
Tlas
Pcaoad,
'
Chanda
oh albeged
Chhatta
Congr
ach
lysellassg iheir
ontroflung
ansi attempted 10 gli mc
stake Co Eeaar 10w ran
elsa
mm
ler
Ramm
Staagla'
SIIO 51 exorbitant pric
dcii e taere Co
cc
after getting coal block
cl rand ha
re igsialaon
They agency all gad
'cv r
ab gedly
hewrng
thai
whiloa,Oeoperaenii h
ans aaeiavourto BJPMP'
conapaaay b
Oh one oh abt< promot r
aasb-le lang
Ware seid
her n arly 150
en 1 block In ih
tat alle-
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MUMBM. SPI A
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Ilse
mmaacer
remaa'ked 'manmg oal a
nat hlc upenang re tau
rani and anvelv cl lot oh
whsch aake
pmoce e
II
Id ah Ilse la on aob
coal block ire ran
lied
wllhoui
miii taas
Ihe
peoc
ob Verafa taen
md o
n
hoher
Ilse
report ob 1
a out. ah
privat
coesld
eompaisa
immodaateiv move Ilse
eure and get rellef 'lt 1
haare that wc appr hend
tlait EIS ia m lang Isls
cl measd wlth ci san'
'otrJ Led
d Ilae Clii
selten ii md bis
mach
vomSSna ala an mstlr
1101) 011
govemnmejfl
od lgfla,aaajej
‚resaya
not
bes bel hoee do iSa
respend 10 CilS
don'.
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Firms
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iileged
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foflowedbyitinailouing
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OVER REMARKS
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the
Dn
tuosday said tho policy
Ui
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BJP SE
-
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CBI charges former
Gujarat minister Shah
AbmedabadlDanta, Sept.
t Former Gujarat minis
terAmitShati,acloseaicle
was arrested by the CBI in
the Sheikh encounter case
in 2010, has now been
charged in the second fake
I.t.t!lt'L
of
chief
minister
Narendra
was
Modi,
among 20 people nanied by
chargesheet
the CBI in its
m the Tulsi Prajapati fake
encounter
Prajapati
44J
encounter case for alleged
ly entering into criminal
conspiracy
and
tion of evidence.
Mathur,
'
m
D.G.
Vanzara and Geetha ‚John
and Dy SP R.K. Patel were
also also named in the
chargesheet
I*
of Arms Act. Shah is out
on ball in the Sheikh
encounter case but has
P.C.
O.P.
submitted
in
‚.
question ofjunisdiction.
The court will deeide in
matter after conduet
mg hearing next Monday.
the
the court of judicial magis
trate DR. Joshi at Danta
in Banaskantha district.
in
The three senior ips am
named
in
the
cers
chargesheet included two
killed in fake encounter
allegedly by the Gujarat
Clthapri,
police
at
in
who retfred.
The chargesheet, howev
Banaskantha district on
December 28, 2006.
lii a major blow to the
ruling BJP, Shah, who
was not taken
er,
on
record by the court due to
case
of
murder,
conspiracy,
criminal
destruction of evidence as
also wider the provisions
destruc
Former state police chief
Pande, IPS officers
for
Prajapati, an eye-witness
the
encounter
of
Sohrabuddin Sheikh, was
been barred from entering
Gujaratbythe SC. Former
DGP Pande has also been
Made
accused
in
the
Prajapati case. Mr Pande
was chief of state police
when the encounter took
place in 2006.
Mr
retired
Mathur,
ADGP who was then (in
2006)
and
heading
the
then
CID
IGP
crhne
CID
crime John,
who
was
heading investigation in
haye
the Sheikh case,
also
been booked as accused in
the case.
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GBI registers five cases
countywide. raids
PBDBUREAU/PTI
-
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today carried out raids
locations acrossthe
country after filing cases
in 30
against five companies for
alleged criminal conspira
blocks by
coal
cy toet
fudging their net
w9rth
figures and misrepresenta
pf facts and
tion
named
Cohgress MI' Vijay Darda
inone of the
FIRs.
companies—JLD
Five
Limited,
Yavatmal En&rg
in which Darda was one of
JAS
Directors,
the
Infr
-
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Limited, AMR Iron and
Navbharat Power
Lihiited and Vini
Steel,
Private
and
Iron
Steel
Limited—with
.directors
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Udyog
their
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20
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in
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of
midst
)he CAG report on the
-;block
allocation
coal:
that
has
stalled Parliament for more
than two *eeks
HosVever, CBI said' the
action
has
nothing to
with CAG report and
been in the pipeline
during raids at the offices of some
£
Th
ed
raids
in
NEW DELHI: Under attack from
MJP on the coal block allocation
issue, the-Government on Tuesday
$a14.4he policy followed .by it in
pfløttfrn
do
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es of owners of some corn
panjes. 'The cases have
been registered in connec
:
indicated more
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in
the offing. P6
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PTI photo
With the
-
sub~ide, Prliarnent
wa~ paralysed for the'
tenth day on Tuesday
as WV remained unre-
-
on
Minister
its
demand
of Prime
Manmohan
Singh.
further its
-
'it was a hundred per cent correct.policy.
There cbuld not b& a better policy than this".
Oi a day, when CBI.registered five cases
in connection with the alleged scant in allo
cation of coal mines and conducted searches
in nearly 30 pIace across the country Jaiswal
and searched pçemis
DELI!!:
for resignation
political gains at the same time.
.Asked about the allocation policy he said
Hyde
Patna,
rabad; Dhanbad and Na
-
storm over thá coal block
allocation issue refusing.
lenting
a design in demanding en
kecance1lation oE coal blocks to actually
Mumbai,
Kolkata
-S
.to
was "100 per
and those who
t14efit the private cothpanies and
-ContinuedonP6
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for
hon with The allegations
NEW
wrongdoing will go to jail.
1 gpi'luster Sriprakash Jaiswal accused
Kolicata,
gpur
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thìe miues
i4onect"
wéreconduct
Delhi,
correct:iaiswal
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I
per cent
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quite sonw time.
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raids come in
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just
remained
three
for
the
days
mon-.
to conclude,
-
soon session
thpre was little hope of
h6rmalcy returning
the
the
.
as
stalemate persited in
Lok
Sabha
and
the
Rajya Sabha in the wake
-.
of
the CAG report.
-
-
PTI
C files, five cases
after èoüntry-wide
:
raids i: cOalgátè
Continued from fl
which got Bahder Coal
Block in Maharashtra.
relatçd to getting coal
blocks allocated on the
basis of misrepresentations
and false claims in the
The
connivance or lack
of
du diligence on part of
public servants.
accused
Ramesh Jayaswal.
Attempts
to
contact
Vijay DardA to seek 'his
failed. His staff
said he wa out of station.
reaction
'Promoters àf sonic of
these
companies
have
However,
allegedly sold their stakes
allegations against him.
in
an
irregular
television
on
channels, S rduted the
He has said that neither
he was inolved in ny
scam nor had he any part-
manner
allocatioi% of thaI
blocks," the agency said in
a release.
CM sources said in one
of the FIRs, Darda's name
flgires a a director in JLD
Yavatmal Energy Limited
which got Fatehpur East
Coal Mock in Chhattisgarh
as part of the alleged crimi-
in
Jayaswal, Manoj Jayaswal
and
applications, presentations
and
other
this case iuiclude Arvind
after
nership
with Union
Minister.
Jaiswaj
Shri
.
Coal
Prakash
or Subodh
Kant
.Sahai.
If
any BJP leader proves
" that he has been allotted
nine coal blocks and that he
has got benefit of Rs 25,000
nal conspiracy by misrep-
crore in nexus with Jaiswal,
resentation facts on the
he was ready to relinquish
politics. Or else the person
gibility
eli-
conditions.
In its FIR on JLD
Yavatmal Energy Limited,
which bagged Fatehpur
East
Coal
Block
in
making allegations should
Chhattisgarh,
Jayaswal and
Abhishek
Jayaèwal have also been
CM
quit. politics,
including
Darda, Manoj
Anand
Abhishek
has
kvIanofJayaswaL Anand
has
named Darda along with
his son Devendra and other
former and present çlireç-
tors
he
claimed.
named another case related
to alleged irregularities on
part of JAS Infrastructure
and Power Limite4 which
Rajendra
Jayaswal,
Jayaswal
and
is part
of Abhijeet Group.
Jayaswal.
The attempts to contact
-,
CBI
has
jooked
the gr&ip sj,okesperson
Devendra Darda in another. failed as his office said he
which relates
case
to
was on leave. The emails
alleged irregularities qn the
part of AMR hon and Steel,
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'back.
him also bounced
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NEW DELHI, SEPT 4
DELl!
A
tody
court
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of judicial custody of
bui-
,nessman Abhishek Verma
and his Romanian wjfe
whd were arrested in conwith a co?ruption
nection
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Jam
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wife
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the court
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ahy
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homework/preparation.
The 10
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CBI files cases against 5 firms in coal scam
I Names Cong MP Vijay Darda I Conducts raids at 30 places across country
TRIBUNE NEws SERVICE
Ranchi,
bai
NEW
DELHI.
SEPTEMBER 4
and
Hyderabad, Mum
Delhi
(NCR).
The filing of cases and raids
The CBI on Thesday
carried
30 locations across
come in the midst of a raging
out raids at
controversy over the CAG
the country after filing cases
against five companies for
report on the coal blockallo-
alleged criminal conspiracy
ment
to get coal blocks by fudging
weeks. However, the CBI
said the actionhad nothing to
do with the CAG report.
The agency's first inforina-
cation that has stalled Parlia-
their net worth and misreprefacts. The agency
senting
named
Congress MP Vijay
Darda in one
of
the FIRs.
CBI officials during a rad in New Delhi.
Closing in on alleged irreg-
ularities by
panies,
filed
five private com-
the CBI on Thesday
FIRs naming
several
persons, including Darda, an
Maharashtra.
After nearly three months
of a preliminary inquiry following a reference from the
Central Vigilance Commission, the CBI filed five sepMP from
arate
cases against Vini hon
and Steel,
Nay
Bharat Power
Private Limited (1-lyderabad), JLD Yavatmal (Nag
pur), in which Vijay Darda
and his family members have
beennamed as directors, JAS
Infra Capital Private Limited
-
tion
PT!
due diligence on part of pub
said.
more
report
Kumar
the applications, presentations and connivance/lack of
lic servants", the CBI
for
than
names
two
Arvind
Jayaswal,
Manoj
Jayaswal, Ramesh Jayaswal
and Devendra Darda (direc-
tom
of AMR hon and
Private Limited,
Steel
Nagpur);
The promoters of some of
these
have
companies
Devendra
tered cases against unknown
allegedly sold theft stakes iii
Jayaswal, Anand Jayaswal
public servants on charges of
an
conspiracy and cheating.
they
(Kolkata) and AMR Iron and
Steel
(Nagpur). It also regis
The cases were registered
over allegations related
to
getting coal blocks allocated
on
the
basis of "misrepre
sentations and false claims in
irregular manner after
were allocated coal
blocks, the agency said.
The CBI's searches
took
Vijay Dank, Rajendra Dank,
Darda,
Manoj
Abhishek (directors of
Yavatmal Energy Limited, Nagpur); and directors of
and
JLD
Hyderabad-based Navbharat
place in in 11 cities, including Nagpur, Kolkata, Bhilai,
Power
Yavatma!, Raipur, Dhanbad,
Chandra Prasad.
Private
Ltd
-
P
Trivikrama Prasad, Y Harish
Coal block allocation policy
correct, asserts Jaiswal
TRIBUNE NEws SERViCE
Llf anyone has resorted to
wrongdoing, qot only his coal block
NEW DEuiI, SEPTEMBER 4
allocation will be cancelled, but he will
also be in the jail. I can guarantee
Hitting out at the BJP, Coal
Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal
you... It (the allocation policy) was a
hundred per cent correct policy. There
today charged that the main
opposition party's demand
could not be a better policy than this.
for the en masse cancellation
of 142 coal blocks was a
pioy to benefit its promoters
and again political mileage
from the campaign.
Jaiswal said by pressing for
the cancellation of the coal
blocks even before the CBI
had completed its probe and
the inter-ministerial group
submitted its recommendations, the
BJP plan was to
help private companies
that they could
so
move the
court and get relief.
"We telieve
the
BJP is
Srlprakash Jalswal, Coal Minister
making this demand with a
design,' Jaiswal told media-
persons today.
Defending the UPA govpolicy of coal
ernment's
block allocation, Jaiswal said
it was "100 per cent correct"
had been in place since
1993. However, if there is
any wrongdoing, the guilty
would not be spared. "The
defaulters will face jail," he
and
warned on a day when
the
conductedraids at nearplaces across the country and registered five
cases
in connection with the coal
blocks allocation scam.
CBI
ly30
Congress MP Vijay Darda is
said to have links with one of
the companies against which
the CBI has registered a case.
When asked about this partic
War case, Jaiswal said, "If any
one has resorted to any wrongdoing, then not only will his
coal block be cancelled but
will also be in jail.'
he
Jaiswal, who was fielded by
the Congress to defend
the gov-
emmenton Coalgate, remarked
that
that
the
CR! action indicated
the government was seri-
about nailing the guilty.
The minister reiterated that
action would be taken against
otis
companies that gave wrong
information or had failed to
achieve the set targets. However, the action would be
taken only after the IMU
which is scrutinising 57 coal
blocks allotted to private
companies,
submitted its
report, he said. "Whatever
steps
the
1MG suggests,
including de-allocation or
cancellation of bank guarantees. will be taken." he added.
' How can CBI probe PM, its boss?
iS
BJP presses for ManmohanSingh's resignation
Acm TANDONITNS
TELANGANA B.JP LEADERS ARRESTED
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 4
BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar
The BJP today renewed its
and party officebearers from Andhra Pradesh were arrested on Tuesday
when they were on their way to submit a memorandum to
for the resignation
of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his alleged
responsibility in the coal
blocks allocation scam asking how the
CB! would
probe Singh, its boss.
Both the Houses of Parliament were stalled again
after minor business
the
Rajya Sabha passed the
AIIMS Amendment Bill to
set up six new AIIMS-like
said raids were happening
because MB MPs Hans Raj
Ahir
and
Prakash
Javadekar had complained
to the CVC, which asked
bound to end at the Prime
Minister's doorstep," BJP
spokesperson
Javadekar
said today, justifying the
demand for Singh's resigna-
institutes
the CBI to probe.
tion citing the need for a fair
a Bill to
make NIMHANS, Banga-
"The government cannot
take credit for the CHI raids.
probe by the CBI.
lore, an institute of nation-
The
al importance. The Opposi-
our complaint and are proof
demand
-
Sabha
and
the
Lok
passed
tion demanded
the Prime Minister regarding
the demand for a separate
state of Telangana. "The government is betraying the cause
of Telangana. We dare the government to bring the Bill and
we will pass it tomorrow. We were arrested and lathicharged
today when we joined 3,000 protesters seeking a
separate state," Javadekar said.
raids are happening on
cancel
that irregularities occurred.
allocated coal blocks
and the BJP cited the CE!
raids in the scam (which
However, we ask how will
the CIII, which is under the
to
the
began
today)
endorsement of its
as
an
stand. It
Prime Minister, investigate
the latter's office if it has to.
The trail of allocations is
"Whose was the last sigthe letters of allocations? Were these not the
Prime Minister's? Who was
the Coal Minister then?"
asked the BJP leader.
When counter-questioned
nature in
on the government's statement regarding the CAG,
curiously
investigating
policy related to natural resources (20 Spec-
every
and now coat) com2004 and leaving
out when the UPA took
charge (leaving out the
NDA period), Javadekar
aid the BJP had no problems with the time scope of
CAG's audits.
"How are we concerned?
The CAG can investigate
why former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi nationalised
coal mining. We have no
trum
mencing
problems," he said.
The BR leader added in
defence that the complaint
related to coal block allocations,
which he and Ahir
made to the CVC, related to
2006-2009 period. "It was
in
2006
that
the
law
in
respect of auction of coal
was reathed.That's why our
complaint begins from that
period." Javadekar said.
CBI names Cong MP Vijay Darda in coal FIRs
RAIDS IN 11 CITIES I Cases registered aqainst five firms which ciot six coal blocks
RAHULTRIPATIU
sentatioaoffacts.
NEW DEnt! SEPThMBER4
THE
Central Bureauof In-
vestigation
Tuesday tiled
its first set ofcasea in the
coalblocks allotmentscandal, accusingCongressMPvijay
Darda
theFiRewere registered.
The FIRs registered by the
agen
named five companies
which
were
The CDI
ofthe live flnns namedin
coal
blocks, and 25 pcoplewho are ei-
cusingthcmofnonexercieingdur
ther
diligencewhile allottingthe coal
blocks.'lheojsctwcrefllcd aftera
Power Pvi Lid, is suspected to
have linkawitbthefamilyofaBJP
three-monlhinvestigationfollow-
politieian,CBI offieerssaid.
allotted six
promoters,
directors
or
shareholders in these firms. Investigators
also
conducted
the FtR
is believed to be linked
tofnnnerjharkhand
CM Madhu
Koda. Anotherfirm, Nay Bluest
searches at 30 locations in II
cities, including Delhi, Mumbai,
among others, of criminal con-
regttlered onthe directionsofthe
vatmal Etsergv Ltd
Kolkata,
Central Vigilance Comnnissioain
paa'ofthe
cheatingand miarepre
Infrastructure Capital
Patna,
flysierahad,
Dhanbadand Nagpur,soon after
Ltd andcompanybefore
Steels Pvt Ltd.
alleged that Darda
AMR Iron and
inglhe
PreliminaiyEttquiiy (PE)
lune.
the coal blocks
were allotted.
"We
sold
The CBtHR against JLDYa-
company
in
scaiñ
China's Donglang
Electrical
mentworth $2.Sbifflon.
More re-
May2008 to VijayJoshi, anasso
cently, he made headlines for
with Manoj Jayasawal, Arvind
Kumar Jayaswal and Ramesh
Jayaswal, who have also been
ciate of former CM
Madhu
buyingaRs 120-crore chartered
Koda,while the coal blockswere
plane. His group is building two
later. We have nothing
to do with the coal blocks," 'liii
syan said.
power plants, one in Jharkhand
and the other in Bihar, and has
named in the HR against AMR
Iron.
allocated
completed the third in Nagpur's
Darda, however, denied the
The CR1 has also alleged the
allegations. "Myassociationwith
promotersof some ofthese com
duce 5,000
thesefirmsendedin2009.Ihave
panies sold their stakes in an ir
by2014.
notused myposition to influence
regular manner after the coal
blockswere allotted. NavBharat,
Group had joinedhandstoset up
anyallocatlonofcoalbiocks," he
" said,
the FIR alleges, furnished false
has alleged that
Vini Iron made false claims about
The CBI
information about
its net worth
MIHAN project. It hopes to pro-
district.
ported
price,
also
Darda,whoalsorunstheme
power in all
a 1,215 MW JawaharlalDarda
MegaPbwerProject in Yavatmal
and later sold a majority stake to
EssarFbwerin 2010 at an inflated
companies, a claim later found
MW of
In 2007, Darda andAbhijeet
its net worth and said
it was sup
by a consortium of 15
The state government had
issued a letter of support to
JLD Yavatmal Energy Limited
to be false. The ownership pat
dia group Lokmat, belongs to
tern of Vial Iron also changed
Nagpur.
soon after it applied for coal
Jayaswal are known to be close
powerprojectwasexpectedtobe
blocks and was allotted captive
friends,withJayaswal havingbm
operationalby 2010. Darda had
blocksinNorthRajhara inihark
ken away from his father Basant
then promised to provide free
hand on November 20,2008.
Lal Shaw, patriarch ofthe NECO
power to marginalfarmers in the
Vaibhav
named
Thlsyan,
who is
as one of the directors of
Darda
and
Manoj
Group of Industries,
Jayaswal was in the spotlight
Yuilkon,toldmelndithiflp,ess 'in2010withhislittleknownAbhi
that he was associated with the
jeet Group signing a deal with
Ihe
eons-
after their father and Congress
Corporationforsupplyofequip
the
-
Dardaswhichisnamed
7 per cent of AIvIR along
owned
I
one
namedpublic tenants under the
Prevention of CorruptionAct ae
CBI files FIRs in coal
i
Ltd.
and hishrothcrRajendra Darda,
who isaminister in Mahsrashsra,
spiracy,
It is
Vini Iron and Steel Udyog
hasalenlsjoked
forthe project.
The coal-based
district
thermal
for five years. The proj
-
ect never tookoff.
DESHPANDE IN NAGPIJR
leader Jawahar Lal Darda
teges
at-
that the companymiarepre-
tented
facts and tiirrstdsed false in-
fomiahonin conneceièn with coal
blocksaltottedinFatehpur East in
Chliateisgarh inJannaty2008.
Vijay Darda and
another
shatchotderinhüiconipaiw,miising
baron Manoj Jayaswal
are
also
linkedto two otherconspaniesthal
are
named in the
FIRs:
JAS
Prajapati encounter: Ex-minister Shah,
ex-DGP Pande, Addi DGP John charged
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, SEPTEMBER 4
against whom the
CBI
filed a
sup-
DSP R K Patel,
has done two stints
and Shah of
CR! and was Ahmedabad
po-
plementaiy
dtr,
Thesday filed a
chargesheet be-
spiracy,
chargesheet against former
fore the court of
tion
Gujarat
Judicial
and
THE
CBI on
police chief P
C
Pande, Additional Director
General Police Geetha John,
retired DGP OP Mathur besides former minister of state
for home Amit Shah for plot-
trate
D
R
Magis-
(first class)
Joshi
in
Danta, Banaskantha. The Gujarat
niur-
criminal conof
destrucevidence
Sohrabuddin
said
counter
John was investigatingthe
Sheikh
en-
case when Prajapati
Amit Shah faces
spokesperson
was killed. She was the super-
murder charges
Dharini Mishra.
vising officer
police which first
Pande,
who
ting the murder of Thlsiram
probed the case had given a
was the state police chief when
Prajapati in a fake encounter in
clean chit to Shah.
Prajapati was murdered, was
allegedly aware of the "en-
2006and destroying evidence.
lice commissioner during the
2002 riots—now works with a
corporate house.'
offences under the Anns
Act,
CBI
with the
The chargesheet accuses
the police officers, including
counter" plot.
l'ande—who
of the case when
it was handled by the Gujarat
CID
(Crime), then headed by
CONTINUED ON
PAGE 2
Ex-minister Shah
charged in Prajapati
encounter case
the miss-
Mathur. They are suspected
Supreme Court for
of having tampered with
the
ing Kauser Bi. A preliminary
containing the phone
probe found the encounter
CDs
call records of the police offi
was staged.
cers and politicians involved
intheencounters.
John is now with the Po
lice Housing Corporation
and Mathur has
been given a
post-retirementjobasthedi
rector general of the newly
founded
Raksha Shakti Uni
versity.
The
2010
court in
January
transferred
the
Sohrabuddin case to the CBI
citing flaws in the investigations carried outbyJohri. The
Prajapati case was trans-
ferred to the
by the
CR!
Supreme Court while acting
on a petition moved by Pra
The Sohrabuddin case
japati's mother, Nannada
probe threwopen Gujaratpo
Bai, in April last year. The
lice's can ofwormswhenthen
CBI case is that Prajapatiwas
supervising officer Rajnish
a
Rai arrested his colle ages, II'S
Sohrabuddin abduction and
officers DO Vanzara, Rajku
fake encounter case
mar Pandian, and Rajasthan
liquidated by some of the ac
IPS officerDineshM N.Later
cused police
key
R K Patel arrested Vanzara,
witness
in
the
and was
officers.
The chargesheet was sub
Dinesh and IPS officer Vipul
mitted
Agarwal in the Prajapati
ing time of 5:30 pm when a
case. Vanzara, Dinesh and
CBlteamreachedthecourtin
the border district of Ra-
Pandian were already in jail
in the
almost near the
cbs
Sohrabuddin fake en
naskantha. Pandian's lawyers
counter case. The supplemen
submitted an application say-
names Pan
ing the court did not have the
Rajasthan
jurisdiction to accept the
policemen. Many of those
chargesheet. Mitesh Amin
named are already injail.
and Robin Mogera
tary chargesheet
dian
and
five
Shahwas named the mas
termind in the
Sohrabuddin
said
that
since the CB! had already
registered a fresh FIR in the
encounter case, which the
case
CR! suspected was the fallout
of an extortion-related dis
Ahmedabad, the Banaskan-
in
the
CBI court in
tha court had no jurisdiction,
pute, and was released on bail
Counsel forthe CR1, Ejaz
by the Gujarat High Court
Khan, reportedly told the
but
was
barred
by
the
Supreme Court from enter
ing Oujarat.
court
that
there
were
Supreme Court judgments
which
held that
the investi
Prajapati was killed in an
gating agency could submit
alleged encounter by a joint
the chargesheet at a court un-
team
of Gujarat and
Ra
jasthan police on December
28,2006 near Chhapri village
of Banaskantha
district.
The
encounter was similar to the
one in which his accomplice
Sohrabuddin was killed on
November 26, 2005 and his
derwhosejurisdictionalarea
the
alleged offence took
place.
The CR! release said,
"The advocates for Amit
Shah objected to the filing of
the
chargesheet
on
the
ground that this court does
wifeKauserfliwentmissing.
not have jurisdiction. The
The stoiyunfoldedwhen
court directed the registrar
Sohrabuddin's
brother
Rubabuddin filed a habeas
corpus
petition
in
the
to place the matter before
theregularcourtonSeptember
10."