Coal Scam Haunting Dasari, Cs Filed

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Coal scam: Charge sheet filed on Dasari

The CBI has filed a charge sheet on 14 individuals and 5 companies in the infamous Amarkonda Murgadangal (Jharkand) coal block allocation scam. In a major setback to the veteran actor and director and former union minister of coal, Dasari Narayana Rao, the CBI has also included Dasari's name in the charge sheet.

Dasari Narayana Rao has been facing charges for illegally obtaining a Jharkand coal block for reputed industrialist Navin Jindal owned Jindal Group Company under false representations, for quid pro favours. Charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating have been levied against the accused which include Dasari, Navin Jindal and former Jharkand CM Madhu Koda. The CBI Special Court will consider the charge sheet in a special hearing tomorrow.

On 30th March, the enforcement directorate, based on the investigation carried out by the CBI, had attached assets and properties worth 2.50 crores belonging to Dasari Narayana Rao under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The said amount was transferred to Dasari's Soubhagya Media by the Jindal Group Company, owned by the reputed industrialist Navin Jindal