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 S 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.
Coal Scam case: The Delhi court had convicted both for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating and corruption in the case related to allocation of Lohara East coal block.
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The CBI on Thursday sought maximum punishment from a Delhi court for former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and former joint Secretary in the Ministry of Coal (MoC), K S Kropha in a coal scam case related to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra. India News | Coal Scam: CBI Seeks Maximum Jail Term for Former Coal Secy H C Gupta, Others.