SC stays summons to Manmohan |
The Supreme Court on April 1 stayed the trial court`s decision to summon former PM Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former coal secretary PC Parakh and three others. Singh`s daughter was present in court and expressed faith in judiciary after the apex court stayed the order summoning her father and five others as accused in the allocation of Talbira-II coal block to a joint venture of Hindalco. Appearing for Singh, senior advocate Kapil Sibal made belligerent legal arguments terming the trial court decision to summon the former PM a grave mistake both in law and understanding of evidence. Sibal said that the ex-PM according to the trial judge violated the screening committee guidelines. He said but the Supreme Court had cancelled all coal block allocations saying the committee followed no procedure. Sibal said if this is the case, then Singh did the right thing in not agreeing with the screening committee recommendations. Sibal said then PM had honored the request made by the Odisha chief minister for allocation of coal block to joint venture between private and public enterprises.
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