Bhubaneswar: October 06: A Special Court in Delhi convicted Dilip Ray, former union minister in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.
Dilip Ray was Minister of State (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Special Judge Bharat Parashar convicted Dilip Ray, guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to irregularities in allocation of Brahmadiha coal block in Jharkhand in allocation to Castron Technologies Limited in 1999.
Court also convicted two former senior officials of the Ministry of Coal.
The arguments on quantum of sentence to the convicts will be heard by the court on October 14.