New Delhi: Amid CBI booking Congress MP Naveen Jindal and former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao in a fresh FIR in coal scam, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Tuesday said that strict action would be initiated against all those found guilty of wrongdoings.
"We have forwarded to CBI all complaints between 1993 and 2009. CBI is taking action....Strict action would be initiated against all those who have indulged in wrongdoings and have given wrong statements," Jaiswal told a television channel.
CBI has booked Rao and Jindal for alleged cheating, graft and criminal misconduct in its 12th FIR in the coal blocks allocation scam, causing embarrassment to the ruling Congress.
During its eight-month long probe into the scam, it is for the first time that the then Minister of State for Coal has been named as accused in an FIR by CBI in which it has alleged that Rao received Rs 2.25 crore camouflaged as investment from one of Jindal's firm within a year of allocating him a coal block.
CBI sources said Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) and Gagan Sponge Iron Limited, also a firm of Jindal's, had bagged Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block in Birbhum, Jharkhand in the year 2008 by alleged misrepresentation of facts when Rao was the MoS for Coal.
It said the misrepresentation was allegedly done on three counts - land, water supply and previous allocations. They said JSPL allegedly claimed in application submitted in January 2007 that they had only three coal blocks with them where as actually they had at least six coal blocks.
The sources said this was done to boost their eligibility for the coal block as the government was mulling to avoid monopoly of single company by not allocating large number of blocks to one firm.
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