Former PM Manmohan Singh gets posthumous clean chit: Recalling the coal block ‘scam’ case

3 min readNew DelhiJul 29, 2026 08:32 PM IST Former PM Manmohan Singh in 2018. Photo: Prem Nath PandeyThe Supreme Court Wednesday gave a posthumous clean chit to the late former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a case pertaining to the alleged coal block “scam” that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was probing

In 2005, Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary PC Parakh and three others were summoned as accused by the Special Court in corruption allegations pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana accepted the CBI's closure report giving a clean chit to Manmohan Singh.

SC gave clean chit to Manmohan Singh in coal block caseNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has given a clean-chit to ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the coal block allocation scam case, nearly two years after his demise.A special judge in SC quashed the summoning order and accepted closure reports filed by CBI.The case pe