Former Union Minister Dilip Ray was on Tuesday convicted by a particular courtroom right here in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
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Special Judge Bharat Parashar convicted Ray, former minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities, for felony conspiracy and different offences.
The courtroom additionally convicted two senior officers of the Ministry of Coal at the moment, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam, Castron Technologies Ltd (CTL), its director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla and Castron Mining Ltd (CML).
The courtroom will hear arguments on the quantum of sentence on October 14.
The case pertains to allocation of Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to CTL in 1999.
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