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SC to pronounce verdict on illegal coal block allocation today

| | Sep 24, 2014, at 03:28 pm
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IBNS): The Supreme Court will decide the fate of at least 218 coal blocks which were allocated to companies illegally by the Centre, reports said.

The Apex court will pronounce the verdict at 2 pm.

The top court on August 25 had held that all coal blocks allocations since 1993 by various regimes at the Centre were illegally and arbitrarily done, sources said.

A bench headed by Chief Justice RM Lodha had said in its 163-page verdict: “To sum up, the entire allocation of coal block as per recommendations made by the Screening Committee from July 14, 1993 in 36 meetings and the allocation through the government dispensation route suffers from the vice of arbitrariness and legal flaws.”

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