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On developments of the coal scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) files and progress report of its investigation will be handed over in a sealed cover to the special court.

The CBI also filed a statement of various people recorded during the probe and asked the court to not open the sealed cover till the probe is complete.

The CBI seeks more time to complete the probe and court gave time to February 19.

CBI earlier submitted the closure report on August last year, but the court ordered for the further investigation to be initiated. That may be the reason for quizzing former Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh recently.

CBI on 23rd January registered a fresh case for allocation of coal blocks allocation scam against Indal (now Hindalco, Aditya Birla group) in connection with the allocation of Talabira-I coal block, twenty years ago.

Then the agency in search out operation carried out searches in four locations including one in Mumbai and three places in Sambalpur, Odisha after registering the case, CBI sources said.

It is alleged that the company mined coal in an unauthorized manner in the existing power plant whereas the allocation was given to mine for the expansion the capacity of new power plant, source added

The agency alleged that the mining was done without taking permission and named that Indal (now Hindalco) and unknown public servants in connection with the case.

AW: Arun Kumar