According to a report by PTI, the CBI has finished looking into claims of irregularities in the contract awarding procedure for the supply of imported coal to the Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation, which involved Adani Enterprises and a former National Cooperative Consumer Federation chairman.
A report from PTI stated that the central agency has submitted the closure report for the 2020 case to a special CBI court, which also includes bookings for senior adviser S C Singhal and the former NCCF managing director G P Gupta.
The federal agency scheduled S C Singhal, the senior adviser, and G P Gupta, the managing director of the NCCF at the time of the case registration in 2020. Before a special CBI court, the case’s closure report was submitted.
2020 saw the CBI launch a case against Adani Enterprises, former NCCF chairman Virender Singh, and others after a three-year preliminary inquiry. According to a report from PTI, Premraj Kuar, the deputy secretary of the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution at the time, made a complaint that sparked the probe.
The CBI has notified the Special Court that Kuar has voluntarily resigned from his position. In order to request their attendance at the hearing the next day, letters have been sent to both the retired officer and the present incumbent, according to the PTI news source.
The CBI filed a case of cheating and corruption against Adani Enterprises and the former NCCF chairman of the multi-state cooperative based on the findings of the inquiry. They were accused of allegedly manipulating the selection of a supplier for the coal needs of Andhra Pradesh’s power plants.
According to the CBI FIR, on June 29, 2010, the Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (RTPP) in Kadapa and the Narla Tata Rao Thermal Power Plant (Vijayawada) requested a supply of six lakh metric tons (MT) of imported coal via seaports from the Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation (APGENCO).
According to PTI’s report, “the agency had claimed that senior NCCF officers engaged in post-tender negotiations with Adani Enterprises to provide it with undue benefits even though the company did not qualify.”
In accordance with the Prevention of Corruption Act, it had filed a complaint against the company and its personnel for allegedly engaging in criminal conspiracy and fraud, as well as for possibly benefiting the Ahmedabad-based company and violating tender process rules.
