Coal scam

The ED searched I-PAC’s office located on the 11th floor of a building in Salt Lake, the Loudon Street residence of I-PAC’s head, Pratik Jain, and the office of a trader in the Posta area of Burrabazar, Kolkata.

Even as the FT report does little to prove wrongdoing by the Adani Group in coal sale, Rahul Gandhi has gone ahead and attacked Modi over transactions that took place when Manmohan Singh was the country's Prime Minister.

Advocate Pandey added that IAS Ranu Sahu has been remanded in three-day ED custody. ED has provisionally attached Sahu’s property worth Rs 5.52 crores.

The investigation relates to "a massive scam in which illegal levy of Rs 25 was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen", the agency has alleged.

ED had already questioned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira.

A special CBI court Monday awarded a three-year jail term to former Union Coal secretary HC Gupta in the UPA-era coal scam case

The CBI court of special judge Arun Bharadwaj found HC Gupta, KS Kropha and Mukesh Gupta guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Rasheed Kidwai wrote, "When the Congress-led UPA was in power at the Centre, telephone calls and oral messages from Vora and Ahmed Patel carried more weight than those of the Prime Minister’s Office."

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has shot out a letter to all Opposition leaders and non-BJP CMs to unite in the fight against BJP.