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Orissa HC issues notices to CBI, Centre on mining scam

PTI | By, Cuttack
Aug 26, 2009 03:24 PM IST

The Orissa High Court has issued notices to the CBI, the state government and the Centre asking them to file counters in a PIL on alleged multi-crore mining scam in Keonjhar district.

The Orissa High Court has issued notices to the CBI, the state government and the Centre asking them to file counters in a PIL on alleged multi-crore mining scam in Keonjhar district.

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Adjudicating on the PIL filed by a Berhampur-based activist, Subrat Chandra Tripathy, the bench of acting Chief Justice I M Quddusi and Justice Sanju Panda on Tuesday issued notices to the CBI, the state government and the Centre to file counters.

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The PIL said the vigilance enquiry ordered into the alleged scam will not reach a logical conclusion and appealed to the court to order a CBI probe into illegal mining leases to manganese mines in the district.

Opposition parties in Orissa have been demanding a CBI enquiry into the alleged scam. The matter will be heard on October 14.

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