Earlier, on October 21, CBI had filed a "detailed and comprehensive" report before the court in the case.
In a closure report, the CBI had said that nothing substantial emerged to establish cheating and criminal conspiracy among Coal Ministry officials and JLD Yavatmal Energy
Coal blocks allocated to SAIL and NTPC and two Ultra Mega Power Projects have been exempted.
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