CBI books CCL officials for allegedly causing a loss of ₹83.64 crore

According to the FIR, the accused public servants conspired with the others to conceal the shortage of coal by preparing “manipulated measurements books”.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against some officials of the (CCL), a Kolkata-based private company and its directors for allegedly causing a loss of about ₹83.64 crore to the exchequer. Among the accused persons are Chief Manager (Mining) Nihar Ranjan Saw, Area Senior Manager (Surveyor) Umesh Kumar Singh and Senior Officer (Surveyor) Pankaj Kumar Jha of the CCL's Magadh Amrapali Area at Chatra in Jharkhand, besides Project Officer Dilip Kumar Sharma and Manager Shambhu Kumar Jha of the Amrapali Project. AMPL-MIPL-GCL Private Limited (Kolkata) and its directors have also been named in the First Information Report (FIR). The company was incorporated in February 2020.