NEW DELHI: The CBI on Monday once again
faced the ire of a Delhi court which pulled up
the agency for not filing documents in sequence
and in a legible condition in a coal blocks
allocation case involving Kamal Sponge Steel
and Power Ltd and others.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar asked the
investigating officer (IO) to file complete
documents in a legible condition along with a
list of relevant documents on September 24.
The court also directed the IO to submit a short
synopsis giving details of the documents filed
and their relevance.
"This is ridiculous, no documents are in
sequence," the judge said.
The court heard part arguments on the closure
report filed by CBI in the FIR in which Kamal
Sponge Steel and Power Ltd, its directors,
Pavan Ahluwalia, Kamaljeet Ahluwalia, Prashant
Ahluwalia, its senior official Amit Goyal and
some unknown government servants were
named as accused for allegedly misrepresenting
facts, including inflated net worth, to acquire
coal blocks.
During the hearing, the court raised questions
over CBI filing closure report against the firm's
chartered accountant Amit Goyal as he was the
one who had appeared before the Screening
Committee, which dealt with its application
seeking allocation of coal blocks, on behalf of
the company.
The court said one of the allegations against
the firm and its directors was that they inflated
the net worth to acquire coal blocks and Goyal
had audited the company's balance sheet so he
must be aware of the actual net worth.
"How can you leave Amit Goyal. He had
appeared before the screening committee, he
knew about the net worth of the company. No
representation was made by the company
before the screening committee, still it acquired
the coal blocks," the court said.