{"id":306632,"date":"2018-12-05T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306632"},"modified":"2018-12-05T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:46:54","slug":"former-coal-secretary-hc-gupta-sentenced-to-3-years-imprisonment-gets-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-coal-secretary-hc-gupta-sentenced-to-3-years-imprisonment-gets-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former coal secretary HC Gupta sentenced to 3 years imprisonment, gets bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306319 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/HC-gupta-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"368\" 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: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Delhi\u00a0court on Wednesday sentenced former coal secretary HC Gupta and two others to three-years imprisonment for irregularities in the coal block allotment case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gupta and the other convicts soon granted bail by the court on condition of furnishing personal bond of rupees one lakh and one surety amount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the sentence awarded was less than seven years, the convicts were entitled to appeal for bail, which they got soon after the sentencing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Gupta Special CBI judge Bharat Parashar also sentenced Vikas Patni, managing director of Vikash Metals and Power Limited (VMPL) and its authorised signatory Anand Mallick in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A special court on November 30 had convicted five persons in the case of the coal block allocation scam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"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\u00a0court on Wednesday sentenced former coal secretary HC Gupta and two others to three-years imprisonment for irregularities in the coal block allotment case. Gupta and the other convicts soon granted bail by the court on condition of furnishing personal bond of rupees one lakh and one surety amount. However, the sentence awarded was less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[10100,3394,10003,10099,10101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306632"}],"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=306632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306633,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306632\/revisions\/306633"}],"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=306632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}