Coal rush saga: the scandal that singed a king in Singareni
The HinduThe Indian government is set to auction coal-bearing seams of Singareni coal mines, the reserves of which stretch 350 square kilometres in Telangana. Abdul Haq and his associates created a company called Hyderabad Mining Company Limited. A year later, staying at the upscale Alexandra Hotel in London, Abdul Haq wrote to W.C. Watson on June 2, 1887: “I am instructed by the Government of His Highness the Nizam to purchase 10,000 £10 shares of the Hyderabad Mining Company, Limited. It found: “that the concessionaires have used the concession for the purpose of realising great gains not intended to be conferred on them, and that this has been done to the injury of the State from which they received the concession with the assistance of their partner, Abdul Hakk.” It also found that the shares bought by Abdul Haq on behalf of the Nizam’s government actually belonged to him! While a great grand dome known as Saidanima’s tomb is on the banks of the Hussainsagar Lake, Abdul Haq Diler Jung is buried in a grave with a modest flat roof nearby.
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