A Special CBI Court in New Delhi on Friday granted bail to former Union Minister of State for Coal and Odisha BJP MlA Dilip Ray in connection with a coal block allocation scam case.
The court had summoned Ray and five others to appear before it on the day.
Ray, MlA from Rourkela, appeared before the court and moved his bail application, which was granted.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar had summoned Ray and the other five persons and two firms for the alleged offences under Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating) and 409
(criminal breach of trust) of IPC and under the relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
They had been directed to appear before the court in the case pertaining to the alleged irregularities in allocation of the Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to Castron Technologies ltd in 1999.
Dilip Ray was the Union Minister of State for Coal during the NDA Government in 1999.
The court had summoned these accused after taking cognisance of the CBI’s chargesheet filed against them in the multi-crore coal scam.