New Delhi, Feb 26: Rourkela MLA and Former Union Minister of State for Coal Dilip Ray, the first minister of the erstwhile NDA government who was summoned as an accused in a coal scam case, was granted bail by a special court here on Monday.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar granted bail to Ray, who was a minister in 1999 in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, and five others after they appeared before the court in pursuance of the summons issued to them.
Besides Ray, two senior officials of the Ministry of Coal (MoC) at that time, Pradip Kumar Banerjee and Nitya Nand Gautam were also granted bail.
The court also granted bail to Castron Technologies Ltd (CTL) director Mahendra Kumar Agarwalla.
The bail was granted on a personal bond of Rs one lakh and one surety of like amount. The court has now fixed the matter for April 1 for the scrutiny of documents.
The court had on January 18 summoned Ray as an accused in the case which pertains to the alleged irregularities in the allocation of Brahmadiha coal block in Giridih in Jharkhand to CTL in 1999.
