New Delhi, Nov 3, 2025

A Delhi court has discharged former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta, former Joint Secretary (Coal) K.S. Kropha, and three others in a corruption case linked to alleged irregularities in the allocation of the Fatehpur East coal block in Chhattisgarh.

Special Judge Dheeraj Mor of the Rouse Avenue District Court passed the order after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet, accusing the former government officials, as well as firm RKM Powergen and its director and managing director, of criminal conspiracy, cheating, and corruption under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Prevention of Corruption Act.

In its order, the court said that there was no prima facie evidence to suggest criminal intent on the part of Gupta, Kropha, or the members of the 35th Scr

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