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A special CBI court in New Delhi on Friday took cognizance of a fresh charge sheet in which the agency named five more persons in the coal scam case involving industrialist Naveen Jindal.
Issuing summons to those mentioned in the charge sheet, special CBI judge Bharat Parashar asked all of them to appear before the court on April 10.
In its charge sheet filed on Friday, the CBI named Jindal Steel and Power's adviser Anand Goel, Gurgaon-based Green Infra's vice-president Siddharth Madra, Nihar Stocks director B S N Suryanarayan, Mumbai-based KE International's chief financial officer Rajeev Aggarwal, and Mumbai's Essar Power executive vice-chairman Sushil Kumar Maroo.
Naveen Jindal, along with several top officials of the Jindal Group and former coal secretary H C Gupta are currently on bail in the case and are required to take permission of the court in case they want to travel abroad.
The Jindal group companies have maintained that the Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block was never mined and, therefore, there could have been being no loss to the exchequer in terms of revenue lost, that the allotment was canceled in 2014 by the Supreme Court when it quashed allotment of 214 coal blocks made between 1993 and 2010.