Dasari gets bail in coal scam case

New Delhi: Former Union minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao on Friday told a court here that the decisions about allocating Jharkhand's Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block to two firms were taken by then prime minister Manmohan Singh. Rao, an accused in the coal block allocation case, said it was Manmohan Singh who had decided to allocate Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block to Jindal Steel and Gagan Sponge firms. While seeking bail in the case, Rao's counsel told Special Judge Bharat Parashar that Manmohan Singh held the coal portfolio while the decision of allocation of the coal block to industrialist Naveen Jindal's firms Jindal Steel and Gagan Sponge was taken.