{"id":306318,"date":"2018-11-30T06:18:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306318"},"modified":"2018-11-30T06:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:18:01","slug":"delhi-court-holds-former-secretary-h-c-gupta-5-others-guilty-in-coal-scam-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-court-holds-former-secretary-h-c-gupta-5-others-guilty-in-coal-scam-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi court holds former secretary H C Gupta, 5 others guilty in coal scam case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306319 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HC-gupta-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/HC-gupta-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/HC-gupta.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Delhi court on Friday held former bureaucrat HC Gupta guilty of corruption and criminal conspiracy in a coal scam case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court also convicted five others in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of the coal blocks in West Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court held all of them guilty of criminal conspiracy and took them into custody. The Court has fixed December 3 for hearing arguments on the quantum of punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The case relates to alleged irregularities in allocation of Moira and Madhujore (North and South) coal blocks in\u00a0West Bengal\u00a0to Vikas Metal Power Ltd (VMPL).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi court on Friday held former bureaucrat HC Gupta guilty of corruption and criminal conspiracy in a coal scam case. The court also convicted five others in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of the coal blocks in West Bengal. The court held all of them guilty of criminal conspiracy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,36,2014,2917],"tags":[10004,3394,10003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306320,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306318\/revisions\/306320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}