KANPUR: Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Saturday confirmed that few files related to the coal allocation scam were missing, saying that copies of them are being retrieved.
“It’s true that some files from 1993 to 2004 are missing. We are trying to get the copies of those files ready,” Jaiswal said.
Jaiswal told the media that the Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDI), ministry of steel and ministry of cement have also been asked to return the files if they have them. He added that the coal ministry has given 768 files to the CBI and the investigation was still in process.
Earlier in day, the BJP alleged that files relating to the Coalgate have been lost or misplaced to stall the CBI inquiry and save the Prime Minister.
“The government’s approach right from day one is to hide the facts from the CBI inquiry and this is with the sole intention to protect the PM because he was the coal minister. And they are into a massive cover up. That is why they say that some files are missing or misplaced. All these are alibis, the real thing is that the government does not want to share information with CBI and it wants to cover up the whole scam,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
“That is why we will follow it up and we are hopeful that in the next hearing the Supreme Court also will-because thousands of files have not been handed over to CBI yet, so the enquiry would never be completed,” he added.