The CBI is believed to have submitted in its status report contents of its original investigation details along with the changes made in them before the Supreme Court which will hear the case tomorrow.
The investigating agency, looking into alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks, has submitted an affidavit along with relevant annexures explaining the changes made in its status report to the apex court on Friday, the CBI spokesperson said.
She, however, declined to divulge details of the second status report filed by the CBI. The agency has filed its first status report on March 8.
CBI Director Ranjit Sinha has admitted before the SC that its status report on the coal blocks probe was shared with Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and joint secretary level officers in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Coal Ministry.
The admission triggered an opposition attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demands for Law Minister's resignation. The demand was, however, rejected by Singh.
"I submit that the draft of the same (status report) was shared with Law Minister as desired by him prior to its submission before the Supreme Court. Besides the political executive, it was also shared with one joint secretary level officer each of Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Coal as desired by them," the CBI Director has said in its two-page affidavit before the court.
The affidavit, filed on the direction of the apex court, flew in the face of Additional Solicitor General Hiren Raval that the coalgate scam report was not shared with any member of the government.
In his affidavit filed on April 26, Sinha assured the apex court that the agency will not share further status reports in this case with any member of the political executive.
Earlier, the CBI and the Centre had clashed over the coalgate scam with the agency telling the apex court that there have been "arbitrary allotments without scrutiny" in the coal blocks allocation during UPA-I tenure and the government vehemently refuting the findings saying that the "CBI is not the final word on this."
In its status report filed on March 8, the CBI had said that the coal block allocation during 2006-09 was done without verifying the credentials of companies which allegedly misrepresented facts about themselves and no rationale was given by the Coal Ministry in giving coal blocks to them.
CBI has so far registered 11 FIRs in the matter.
The Supreme Court will hear the case, including the controversial affidavit filed by Sinha, tomorrow.
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