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Former coal secretary P C Parakh was on Friday questioned for the second time in connection with alleged irregularities in the allocation of Talabira-II and III coal blocks in Orissa to Hindalco in 2005.
Parakh was examined for nearly eight hours on Thursday during which he was given a number of queries relating to allocation process and reasons for changing the screening committee decision which had rejected Hindalco’s application.
The CBI said that Parakh cooperated in the investigations and they will now verify the details provided by him.
After examination, when he was asked whether he was satisfied with the questioning process as he had alleged in his book that on previous instances inspector-level officers with no experience of policy formulations were involved in his examination, Parakh had said he was satisfied. “The whole idea of the questioning is to understand. I am in the process of making them understand. They have a point of view. I am trying to put my point of view,” he had said.
Parakh, who retired as Coal Secretary in December 2005, has been accused in a CBI FIR of abusing his official position to grant a coal block to Hindalco, an Aditya Birla Group company. CBI had last year registered a case against Parakh, Aditya Birla and unnamed officials of Hindalco and the Coal Ministry. Aditya Birla and Hindalco have denied the allegations.
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