Coal Scam Case: Ex Union Minister sentenced to 3-year jail

New Delhi: Former Union Minister Dilip Ray was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on Monday in a coal scam case. Ray was convicted in the case which pertains to irregularities in allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.

Besides Dilip Ray, the Special CBI court also handed three years' jail to two individuals who were also convicted recently for their role in the case.

A Delhi court had earlier this month reserved the order for October 26 after hearing arguments from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as well the convicts. The court directed the convicts to be present before it physically on that date.

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Besides Ray, a former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, the CBI had sought life imprisonment for other convicts - two senior officials of the Ministry of Coal at that time, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, and Castron Technologies Ltd’s (CTL) director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla.

Ray was convicted under various sections including 409 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which pertains to criminal breach of trust by a public servant.

This was the first conviction in the coal scam.

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