Coal block allocation case: A timeline of how things happened

New Delhi, March 11: A special court here on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and former coal secretary P.C. Parakh and others in a coal block allocation case. Here is the timeline of the case:

October 2013: CBI registers FIR against K.M. Birla, P.C. Parakh and others on charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption in the allocation of coal blocks.

CBI files closure report in the case, saying evidence collected during probe did not substantiate the allegations levelled against the people named in the FIR.

October 21: CBI files revised closure report in the case.

December 16: Court rejects closure report, orders further probe and to record statements of the former prime minister who was then holding coal ministry portfolio.

January 2015: Manmohan Singh was questioned by CBI in connection with the case.

January 27: CBI files progress report of investigation.

February 19: CBI files final report in the case.

March 11: Court summons Manmohan Singh, Birla, Parakh, Hindalco company, its officials Shubendu Amitabh and D. Bhatt acharya in the case for April 8.

IANS