Frame charges against Jindal, 4 others: Court

New Delhi, July 1

Industrialist Naveen Jindal and four other officials of his company allegedly made incorrect claims before the screening committee for allocation of a coal block, a Delhi Court said today while ordering framing of charges against them to face trial.

Special judge Bharat Parashar ordered framing of charges under Sections 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC against Jindal, Jindal Steel and Power Limited’s former director Sushil Maroo, former deputy managing director Anand Goyal, chief executive officer Vikrant Gujral and the company’s authorised signatory DN Abrol.

“A bare perusal of the submissions of defence counsels, however, clearly shows that we have a case where certain claims were indeed made by the company in the feedback form i.e. qua land or the orders placed qua purchase of equipments and which facts during the course of investigation were actually not found correct,” the judge said. The court has now put up the matter for July 25 for formally framing the charges against the accused. — PTI