The affidavit belies the claim made by Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval on behalf of CBI on March 12 that the probe report in the scam has not been shared with any member of the government and it is only shared with the apex court after being vetted by the CBI director.
Earlier, the CBI and the Centre had clashed over the coalgate scam with the agency telling the apex court that there have been “arbitrary allotments without scrutiny” in the coal blocks allocation during UPA-I tenure and the government vehemently refuting the findings saying that the “CBI is not the final word on this.”
In the status report filed by CBI on March 8, the agency had said that the coal block allocation during 2006-09 was done without verifying the credentials of companies which allegedly misrepresented facts about themselves and no rationale was given by the Coal Ministry in giving coal blocks to them.
