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CBI begins scrutinizing PMO file on coal block allocation to Hindalco

New Delhi: CBI has started scrutinizing the file received from the Prime Minister's Office on coal block allocation to Hindalco to understand the circumstances on the basis of which the earlier decision to reject the

PTI Updated on: October 28, 2013 21:06 IST


Controversy had erupted over the allocation after CBI registered an FIR against Birla and Parakh last week.  

CBI sources said the only material change that took place between rejection of Hindalco's application during 25th screening committee and allotment were two letters routed to Parakh through the PMO and his personal meeting with Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of Aditya Birla Group.  

“To imply that our Chairman, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, managed to overturn the decision of the Screening Committee, is preposterous,” a statement from Hindalco had said refuting the allegations levelled in the CBI FIR.
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