Dilip Ray, Former Union Minister In NDA Government, Convicted In Coal Scam Case

Tuesday, 6 October 2020Newsdesk

Former Union minister Dilip Ray was today convicted by a special court in Delhi in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.

New Delhi, 06 October 2020

As per news report of NDTV, Special Judge Bharat Parashar convicted Dilip Ray, former Minister of State (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, for criminal conspiracy and other offences. The court also convicted two senior officials of the Ministry of Coal at that time, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, Castron Technologies Ltd (CTL), its director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla and Castron Mining Ltd (CML). The court will hear arguments on the quantum of sentence on October 14.

Source -NDTV