Coal rip-off: Former coal secretary HC Gupta sentenced to 3 years in prison

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New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) A Delhi court docket has sentenced former coal secretary H C Gupta to 3 years in prison in a case associated with irregularities within the allocation of a coal mine in Maharashtra.

Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj has additionally sentenced KS Krofa, former Joint Secretary, Ministry of Coal, to 2 years in prison and imposed a high quality of Rs 50,000 on him, a attorney with wisdom of the topic mentioned. Gupta has additionally been fined Rs 1 lakh.

The court docket had convicted either one of them of felony conspiracy, dishonest and corruption within the case associated with the allocation of the Lohara East coal mine.

Meanwhile, the court docket sentenced Mukesh Gupta, the director of the responsible corporate Grace Industries Limited (GIL), to 4 years in prison for felony conspiracy and dishonest and likewise imposed a high quality of Rs 2 lakh on him. At the similar time, the corporate has additionally been directed to pay a separate high quality of Rs 2 lakh.

HC Gupta was once previous convicted in 3 different coal rip-off circumstances as neatly. In those circumstances, the petition filed through Gupta in opposition to the sentence is pending within the Delhi High Court. Gupta is recently in prison.

According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), between 2005 and 2011 the accused had hatched a felony conspiracy in opposition to the Indian govt. The CBI additionally mentioned that the corporate in its utility had claimed general source of revenue of Rs 120 crore, whilst its general source of revenue was once Rs 3.3 crore.

The Supreme Court had on August 25, 2014 annulled the entire allotments of coal mines.