A special court today granted till January 13 to CBI to file the probe report in a coal scam case involving Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal, ex-Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao and others.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar decided to take up the matter on the next date after the investigating officer (IO) submitted that the agency needed some more time to file the report.
The court had earlier this month pulled up CBI for delay in filing the report, saying it was affecting progress of trial. The court had earlier allowed CBI’s plea that it needed to probe the case further in light of certain disclosures made by a chartered accountant Suresh Singhal, who had sought the court’s nod to turn approver.