-The Times of India Less than 24 hours before the Supreme Court takes up the coal scam hearing on Tuesday, a blame game broke out within the government over who was responsible for incorrectly telling the court that the CBI had not shared the contents of its status report on " Coalgate" with the political executive. In a four-page letter to attorney general Goolam Vahanvati, additional solicitor general Harin Raval said he...
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Coal report: In submission to Supreme Court, CBI listed govt changes -Ritu Sarin
-The Indian Express The CBI may have made the Supreme Court's task in deciding whether the "vetting" of its status report in the coal scam by members of the executive amounted to interference or not a lot easier. This is because along with its second status report, the CBI has submitted to the Supreme Court an annexure with a detailed listing of all the changes made in two stages to its...
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-The Telegraph Calcutta: Trinamul MP Kunal Ghosh's future in the party is expected to be decided after Calcutta High Court rules on two petitions by Saradha depositors seeking a CBI probe into the sham deposit-mobilisation scandal, party sources told The Telegraph. "Our leaders have been worried since the court indicated on April 25 that it was contemplating a CBI probe," a party source said. "(If action is taken now), Kunal may try to...
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-The Indian Express This attempt to influence the CBI should cost Ashwani Kumar his job, no matter how the court weighs in After the Supreme Court pressed the CBI, the agency has admitted that its confidential report on coal block allotment had been seen by Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in the draft stage. This comes as confirmation of a serious breach of procedure, one that should compel the UPA to take...
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-The Hindu The CBI's formal acknowledgment to the Supreme Court that, on the demand of Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, it shared the status report of its investigations on the Coalgate scam with bureaucrats in the PMO and Coal Ministry shows how deeply the agency stands compromised. The fact that the CBI Director has now assured the court that the bureau's future status reports "shall not be shared with any [member...
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