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The story listed the following companies as the leading beneficiaries of the coal allocations: Windfall Gains to Allocates (in ? crore)

1) Strategic Energy Tech System (Tata-Sasol)2) NTPC Limited3) Electro Steel Casting4) TNEB & MSMCL5) Jindal Steel and Power6) NTPC7) Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd & other8) JSEB & BSMDC9) Ram Swarup & other10) MMTC 18,62811) JSPL & Gagan Sponge Iron Ltd12) WBPDCL13) MCL/JSW/JPL & others14) CMDC15) Tata Steel Ltd16) MSEB & GSECL17) Chhattisgarh Captive Coal Co Ltd18) JSMDCL19) CESC Ltd & J&S Infrastructure20) MPSMCL

Allegations against Subodh Kant Sahay (Congress leader )

In September 2012, it was revealed that Subodh Kant Sahay, Tourism Minister in the UPA government sent a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh trying to persuade him for allocation of a coal block to a company, SKS Ispat and Power which has Sudhir Sahay, his younger brother, as honorary Executive Director. The letter was written on 5 February 2008. On the very next day, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) sent a letter to the coal secretary on 6 February 2008, recommending allotment of coal blocks to the company. However, Sahay denied these allegations, citing that the coal block was allocated to SKS Ispat, where his brother was only an "honorary director"

Allegations against Ajay Sancheti and his link with Nitin Gadkari (BJP)

Ajay Sancheti's SMS Infrastructure Ltd. was allegedly allocated coal blocks in Chhattisgarh at low rates.

He is a BJP Rajya Sabha MP and is believed to be in close relation with Nitin Gadkari. According to the CAG, the allocation of the coal block to SMS Infrastructure Ltd. has caused a loss of Rs. 10 billion.

Allegations against Vijay Darda and Rajendra Darda(Congress Education Minister Maharashtra)

Vijay Darda, a Congress MP and his brother Rajendra Darda, the education minister of Maharashtra, have been accused of direct and active involvement in the affairs of three companies JLD Yavatmal Energy, JAS Infrastructure & Power Ltd., AMR Iron & Steel Pvt. Ltd, which received coal blocks illegally by means of inflating their financial statements and overriding the legal tender process.

Allegations against Premchand Gupta(RJD-UPA Union Minister )

UPA partner Rashtriya Janata Dal's leader Premchand Gupta's sons' company, new in the steel business applied for a coal block when Premchand Gupta was the Union minister for corporate affairs and secured it about a month after his tenure ended along with that of his government.

The company in question is IST Steel & Power – an associate company of the IST Group, which is owned and run by Premchand Guptas two sons Mayur and Gaurav. IST Steel, along with cement majors Gujarat Ambuja and Lafarge, was allocated the Dahegaon/Makardhokra IV block in Maharashtra.

The company, which applied for a block on 12 January 2007, and was awarded it on 17 June 2009, is sitting on reserves of 70.74 million tonnes. The reserves it controls are more than the combined reserves held by much larger companies – Gujarat Ambuja and Lafarge. Gupta, who belongs to the Rashtriya Janata Dal headed by Bihar leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, was the minister of state for corporate affairs in UPA-I when his party was a constituent of the Congress-led coalition with 21 seats in Lok Sabha. However Mr Gupta maintains he had no involvement in IST Steel and denies influencing the coal-block allocation process.

1. Om Prakash Jindal Indian legislator

2. Om Prakash Jindal, popularly known as O.P. Jindal, was born in Hisar, Haryana. He established a successful business enterprise Jindal Steel and Power under the flagship of the Jindal Organization, of which he was the chairman. Wikipedia

3.4. Born: August 7, 1930, Hisar5. Died: March 31, 2005, Saharanpur6. Spouse: Savitri Jindal (m. 1970–2005)7. Party: Indian National Congress

Allegations against Naveen Jindal(Congress)

Congress. MP, Naveen Jindal's Jindal Steel and Power got a coal field in February 2009 with reserves of 1500 million metric tones while the government-run Navratn Coal India Ltd was refused.

On 27 February 2009, two private companies got huge coal blocks. Both the blocks were in Orissa and while one was over 300 mega metric tones, the other was over 1500 mega metric tones. Combined worth of these blocks was well over Rs 2 trillion (short scale) and these blocks were meant for the liquification of coal. One of these blocks was awarded to Jindal. Naveen Jindal's Jindal Steel and Power was the company which was allotted the Talcher coal field in Angul in Orissa in 2009,well after the self-imposed cut off date by the Centre on allocation of coal blocks. The Opposition alleged that the Government violated all norms to give him coal fields. Naveen Jindal, however, denied any wrongdoing.[39][40]

On 15 September 2012, an Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) headed by Zohra Chatterji (Additional Secretary in Coal Ministry) recommended cancellation of a block allotted to JSW (Jindal Steel Works), a Jindal Group company.[41][42]On 11 June 2013, CBI has booked former Minister of State for Coal Dasari

Narayan Rao and Congress MP Naveen Jindal for alleged cheating, graft and criminal misconduct in its 12th FIR in the coal blocks allocation scam.[4

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Sajjan Jindal (Congress leader Brother) Businessman

1. Sajjan Jindal is an Indian businessman. He is the Chairman, Managing Director of JSW Steel, a part of the JSW Group of companies having interests in Mining, Energy, Ports, Infrastructure and Software. Wikipedia

2.3. Born: December 5, 1959 (age 55), Hisar4. Siblings: Naveen Jindal5.

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In the news

JSW Group to acquire IPL team: Sajjan JindalTimes of India - 1 day agoAHMEDABAD: JSW Steel chairman Sajjan Jindal confirmed that his group is acquiring an ... JSW Group to acquire Royal Challengers Bangalore: Chairman Sajjan Jindal

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Agarwalla is the son of P.K. Agarwalla, a former Rajya Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ).

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/Bj43fcSRRLl8BDNZj5ghjK/CBI-registers-two-fresh-cases-in-coal-scam.html

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday registered two new cases related to possible irregularities in coal block allocations.

Cases have been registered against BLA Industries Pvt. Ltd and its managing director Anup Agarwalla, Castron Technologies Ltd, Castron Mining Ltd, their directors and some government officials, a CBI spokesperson said.

Agarwalla is the son of P.K. Agarwalla, a former Rajya Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Incidentally, Anup Agarwalla is also on the board of directors of Castron Mining

BLA Industries was awarded the Gotitoria (West) and Gotitoria (East) coal blocks in Madhya Pradesh on 21 June 1996 with geological reserves of 4.19 million tonnes and 5.15 million tonnes of coal, respectively.

Castron was awarded the Brahmhadiha block in Jharkhand on 1 September 1999 for the production of iron and steel. This allocation was annulled in September 2012

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By that measure, the worth of three influential and politically connected families — Jindals , Jayaswals and Jajodias — have rocketed by a whopping 2500% to 23000%

in 10 years starting March 2002. It cannot be a coincidence that firms owned by these three families bagged 10% of all coal reserves allotted after the captive mining sector was opened to private players in 1993. In the allocations, Congress MP Naveen Jindal’s company, Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL), emerged

as the biggest beneficiary. It was allocated nine coal blocks with geological reserves of 2.58 billion tonnes or 6% of the total reserves allotted.

Jindal’s brother-in-law Sandeep Jajodia, the promoter of Monnet Ispat and Energy Ltd, was allocated five with geological reserves of 337 million tonnes or 0.78% of the total reserves allotted.

Nagpur-based Jayaswal family that operates two group companies — Jayaswal Neco and Abhijeet Group (that has close links to Congress MP Vijay Darda) — was allocated 10 with geological reserves of 923 million tonnes or 2.13% of the total reserves allotted.

In addition to this, Jindal and Jajodia own equity in other coal blocks that brings up their total share.

However, neither mentioned this was possible mainly because of the generous coal and iron ore blocks JSPL benefited from.

For proof, look at the fortunes of Naveen Jindal’s cousin, Sajjan Jindal, who bagged just two coal blocks to Naveen’s nine.

Between 2005-2012, the market capitalisation of Sajjan’s company JSW Steel surged from Rs4,652 crore to Rs16,100 crore (up just 246%) against 1479% for Naveen’s JSPL (Rs3,225 crore to Rs50,946 crore).

Sandeep Jajodia removed as Boxing India President in SGMtimesofindia.indiatimes.com › Sports

May 3, 2015 - Boxing India President Sandeep Jajodia was ousted after an overwhelming vote against him in the No Confidence Motion brought in at a SGM

Jindal’s brother-in-law Sandeep Jajodia, the promoter of Monnet Ispat and Energy Ltd, was allocated five with geological reserves of 337 million tonnes or 0.78% of the total reserves allotted

1. Delhi-based Sandeep Jajodia was elected president unopposed at the much-awaited Boxing India (BI) election in Mumbai on Thursday. Jay Kowli, president of the Maharashtra Boxing Association, upset Rohit Jinendra Jain of New Delhi to be elected secretary general of the new federation.Sep 12, 2014

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Bhushan Steel readies plan to raise Rs 1,000 crore ...

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Sep 9, 2014 - Bhushan Steel stock drops 20%, market value down Rs 2,000 crore ... of Investigation in connection with the Syndicate Bank cash-for-loan ...

http://timesofap.com/politics/cbi-arrests-bhushan-steel-md-neeraj-singh-in-syndicate-bank-scam.html

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Prem Chand Gupta (born February 3, 1950) was the cabinet minister in Ministry of Company Affairs of India(UPA-RJD)

He is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and is an elected Member of Parliament representing the state of Bihar in the Rajya Sabha.

He was previously a NRI based in Hong Kong who promoted a factory manufacturing watches in India (Indo Swiss Time) and entered politics later.

At that time there were allegations of him being involved in smuggling watches.He lives presently in South Extension New Delhi.Currently also involved in coal scam

IST Steel and Power Ltd, Gujarat Ambuja Cement and Lafarge India Dahegaon-Makardhokra IV, Maharashtra Deallocate The block was allocated on 17 June 2009. IST Steel and Power is owned by Mayur and Gaurav Gupta, sons of former Union corporate affairs minister Prem Chand Gupta.

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The 14th first information report (FIR) in the alleged coal block allocation scam has named industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla as an accused, along with the

government’s former coal secretary P C Parekh, for alleged criminal conspiracy and abuse of official position. According to a senior CBI official, the agency has

found Birla had met Parekh to push for the allocation of the Talabira II coal block in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district in the second half of 2005

_____________________________________________________________________________________ Sriprakash Jaiswal's (Congress Leader)

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These coal blocks were allocated in Jharkhand as well as Chhattisgarh.

It is believed that promoter of all these companies - Manoj - is a relative of the current coal minister. Sources said Sriprakash Jaiswal's daughter has married into a Kolkata-based business family headed by Ganesh Prasad. Manoj is the son-in-law of Prasad's brother

http://www.oneindia.com/2008/04/23/sri-prakash-jaiswals-son-among-8-booked-for-land-encroachment-1208968390.html

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Missing Files Drama

People in office during the allocations[edit]

TKA Nair, Former Principal Secy, PM and now Adviser to PM DC Garg (Chief, Western Coalfields Ltd) under CBI scanner[92]

Ministers[edit]

Sriprakash Jaiswal (incumbent since 2012)

UPA-I coal minister – Sibu Soren, May 2004 to 2007, except 24 July – 27 November 2004 2003 – Ministry of coal separated from ministry of mines

Ministers of mines[edit]

Mamata Banerjee (January 2004 – May 2004) AITC Ram Vilas Paswan (September 2001 – April 2002) LJP Syed Shanawaz Hussain (2001 minister of coal) BJP Sunder Lal Patwa (2000-2001) BJP Naveen Patnaik (minister of mines – 1998 – 2000) BJD [92]

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Manmohan Singh (PM) (four months in 2004 and from 2007 to 2012)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrit_Singh

Personal life[edit]

Her father is the 14th Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. She is the youngest of three sisters.

She is married to Barton Beebe, a professor of law at New York University.[17]

As Staff Attorney at the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, from 2002-2009, Singh litigated numerous cases relating to immigrants’ rights and post 9/11-related abuses, including ACLU v. Department of Defense, a landmark lawsuit which yielded public disclosure of the “torture memos,”[7] among thousands of other government records[8] exposing the systemic nature of the Bush administration’s torture practices.[9] Ms. Singh was also Counsel in Khouzam v. Chertoff a successful challenge to the U.S. government’s use of anti-torture diplomatic assurances to transfer non-citizens without due process to countries known to employ torture; Ali v. Rumsfeld, a lawsuit against high-ranking officials on behalf of Iraqi and Afghan plaintiffs tortured in U.S. custody abroad, as well as a number of other cases challenging the prolonged detention of non-citizens in U.S. immigration custody