Coal block allocations since 1993 illegal: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has pulled up the Centre on coal block allocations and declared all 218 allocations made from 1993 to 2011 illegal and arbitrary. File photo The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Centre on coal block allocations and declared all >218 allocations made from 1993 to 2011 illegal and arbitrary. A Bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha and Justices Madan B. Lokur and Kurian Joseph said the entire allocation of coal blocks as recommended by the Screening Committee from July 14, 1993, in 36 meetings and the allocation made through the government dispensation route suffered from the vice of >arbitrariness and legal flaws. In February 2012, the court ordered the cancellation of spectrum allocations and directed fresh auction. Though >the present judgment would imply that the coal b