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The CBI team raids the Ranchi residence of Ram Swarup Rungta on Monday. Picture by Hardeep Singh
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New Delhi/Ranchi, March 11: After a lull of nearly five months, CBI today swung into action in the coal block allocation scam, registering a fresh case against a Jharkhand company and carrying out searches at its offices across the country, including Ramgarh, Hazaribagh and Ranchi.
CBI sources in Delhi said the agency had levelled allegations of criminal conspiracy and cheating against Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Limited, its chairman R.S. Rungta, MD R.C. Rungta and other directors.
The sources said the company had allegedly made two false claims in its application form for Pakri Barwadi West and Gondal Para coal blocks — it misrepresented the land with it and the number of operating steel plants.
CBI alleged in its FIR that the company, in its January 2006 application, claimed it had three operational steel plants whereas the actual number was only one. It also claimed that it had 80 acre land, whereas the actual figure was about 30 acre, that too without a clear title.
The company, the sources added, was finally allotted North Dhadu coal block on January 13, 2006.
CBI sources said the agency carried out searches at 11 locations in Ramgarh, Hazaribagh and Ranchi in Jharkhand, Ghaziabad and Delhi in NCR, Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Calcutta in West Bengal.
These included company offices and three sponge iron factories in Ramgarh and R.S. Rungta’s residence on Bariatu Road in Ranchi.
CBI has so far registered 10 FIRs, including this one, in the coal scam.
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