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CBI ordered to record Manmohan statement
A special court hearing the coal block case involving industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others here on Tuesday asked the CBI to record the statement of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who was then also holding the coal ministry portfolio.
His pvt secretary and Principal Secretary will also be grilled
New Delhi: A special court hearing the coal block case involving industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others here on Tuesday asked the CBI to record the statement of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who was then also holding the coal ministry portfolio.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar asked the CBI to record the statement of Manmohan Singh in the case. The court also ordered the CBI to conduct further investigation in the case and posted the matter for Jan 27. "I have ordered further investigation. I desire that statement of then coal minister (Manmohan Singh) be recorded beside other officials," the judge said. The court heard a closure report filed in the case related to the allocation of Talabira II and III coal blocks in Odisha to Hindalco in 2005.
The court observed that B V R Subramanyam was the private secretary to the Prime Minister and had not been examined. T K A Nair, who was working as the Principal Secretary, PMO, was examined through a questionnaire. He refused to answer some of the questions, expressing his inability that he was not in a frame of mind to answer further. "Thus, it will be appropriate if the investigating officer (IO) examines Subramanyam and re-examines Nair," the court ordered.
