Coal scam: SC to pass verdict on plea for SIT probe against ex-CBI chief Ranjit Sinha

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce its verdict tomorrow on a plea filed by an NGO seeking a probe by a Special Investigating Team (SIT) against former CBI Director Ranjit Sinha for allegedly scuttling the probe into a coal block allocation scam case.

In 2012, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India estimated that India had lost Rs 1.86 lakh crore by giving out coal blocks without auctions. The allocations had been made through a screening committee made up of bureaucrats pliable to influence and political interference.

The plea was filed by an NGO seeking a probe by a Special Investigating Team (SIT) against former CBI Director Ranjit Sinha for allegedly scuttling the probe into a coal block allocation scam case. NGO Common Cause, has alleged that entries in the visitors' register of the former CBI Director had made it clear that he was meeting the high-profile accused and those associated with coal block allocation former Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay.