A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded four-year sentence to former Parliamentarian Vijay Darda and his son Devendra Darda in a case related to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Chhattisgarh
The court further sentenced JLD Yavatmal Energy Pvt Ltd director Manoj Kumar Jayaswal to four-year jail sentence. M/s JLD Yavatmal was fined Rs 50 lakh.
Besides, former coal secretary H.C. Gupta and two other officials K.S. Kropha and K.C. Samaria were senetnced to three-year jail imprisonment.
Earlier in July, Special jJudge Sanjay Bansal convicted the accused under Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
As per the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), total 13 convictions have been secured in the coal allocation scam, which had rocked the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led government in 2012.
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