A special court today framed charges against former coal secretary H C Gupta and five others in a coal scam case pertaining to alleged irregularities in allocation of a coal block in Madhya Pradesh to an accused firm.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar put the six on trial for alleged offences under various sections of Indian Penal Code and under relevant provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.
Besides Gupta, the court framed charges against two senior public servants, K S Kropha and K C Samria, firm Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd., its managing director Pawan Kumar Ahluwalia and chartered accountant Amit Goyal.
The court has now fixed the matter on October 28 for further hearing.
The court had on October 1 ordered framing of charges against these accused observing that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was kept in the dark by Mr. Gupta, who had prima facie violated the law and the trust imposed on him on the issue of coal block allocation.