New Delhi: Former coal secretary HC Gupta was on Monday awarded two-year imprisonment by a special court in a coal scam case and was granted bail soon after.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parasher also sentenced two senior government officials, KS Kropha and KC Samaria, to two-year imprisonment in the case.
Besides the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on the three convicts.
Ahluwalia will also have to pay a fine of Rs 30 lakh.
All the convicts were granted bail soon after the sentence was announced to enable them move the High Court. Gupta and two serving senior officials were earlier convicted by the court for irregularities in the allocation of the Thesgora-B Rudrapuri coal block in Madhya Pradesh to a private firm.
The CBI had in October 2012 lodged an FIR in the matter, but on March 27, 2014 it filed a closure report. The court rejected the closure report on October 13, 2014 and summoned Gupta and others as accused.
The CBI had alleged that the firm had misrepresented its net worth and the existing capacity, adding that the state government had also not recommended the firm for the allocation of any coal block.
Ten more coal scam cases are pending against Gupta and the proceedings are going on separately. The Supreme Court had last year dismissed his plea seeking a joint trial in all these cases.
(With PTI inputs)
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