Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected pleas of some private firms seeking extension of time in paying penalty in a coal blocks allocation case.
The apex court also dismissed pleas of these firms for participating in auction process without paying penalty by the December 31 deadline.
The court also rejected the plea challenging the Ordinance that has paved way for auctioning of coal mines.
Earlier, the court had dismissed a batch of pleas filed by firms including Tata Steel, Rathi Steel and Prakash Industries and some joint venture companies, having state-owned firms as partners seeking impleadment and re-look of its earlier verdict by which allocations of coal blocks were quashed.
The court had quashed allocation of 214 out of 218 coal blocks alloted to various companies since 1993, terming it as "fatally flawed" and allowed the Centre to take over operation of 42 such blocks which are functional.
With agency inputs
