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Former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta, two others get 3-year jail terms in coal scam case

A Delhi court on Wednesday sentenced former coal secretary H.C. Gupta to three-year imprisonment in a coal block allocation scam case that happened during the previous UPA regime at the Centre. Gupta, who was the Coal Secretary from December 31, 2005 to November 2008, has already been convicted before this in two other cases of coal block allocation in which he had been sentenced to jail for two and three years respectively. He has also been convicted and sentenced to two years in another coal block allocation scam and has been on bail. The other two coal scam cases in which Gupta was earlier convicted related to Kamal Sponge Steel and Power Ltd and Vini Iron and Steel Udyog Ltd. Kropha and Samria were also convicted in KSSPL case.

The Hindu

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