The case came up for hearing before Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar, who deferred the matter as the operations of order passed by him summoning Manmohan Singh, Birla and others as accused have been stayed by the apex court.
Singh could have challenged against the order of CBI trial court in the High Court, but he decided to appeal to the apex body directly.
A special court had summoned Singh along with industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary P C Parakh and three others as accused in a case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked them to appear before it on April 8.
CII said that reputations of institutions and individuals take years to build and can be easily destroyed by actions if they are not well thought through. "Companies such as Hindalco have already made significant investments in the project and are now facing an uncertain future.
Reacting to the special CBI court's summon on Birla, the company and two of its top officials as accused in a coal scam case, the company said that it would defend its case through "legal process" after studying order of the special court.
Accusing the BJP of politicising the ongoing judicial process, he said the ruling party was raking up the issue to divert people's attention from the "black law" on land acquisition.
Earlier in the day, a special court here summoned Singh along with industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary P C Parakh and three others as accused in a case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked them to appear before it on April 8.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, Parakh and three others were on Wednesday summoned as accused by a special court in a coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked to appear before it on April 8.
Birla was said to have been examined over his meetings with the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was also holding charge of coal portfolio, and the then Coal Secretary P C Parakh, another accused in the case.
The agency had reached conclusion to include names of Birla and Parakh in the FIR in connection with allocation of Talabira-II coal block after scrutinising related files during its nearly 16 month-long preliminary enquiry.
In remarks damning the previous dispensation, he has also claimed that UPA functionaries had roped in even his colleagues in the IAS, to which he belonged before his appointment as CAG, to persuade him to leave out names.
The CBI had named Birla and former Coal Secretary P C Parakh in its FIR charging them with criminal conspiracy and corruption in connection with alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks eight years ago.
Sriprakash Jaiswal today said he is satisfied with PMO statement on Hindalco coal block allocation.
Income Tax department today seized Rs 25 crore that was recovered by CBI here during searches at the office of Hindalco Industries, which has been booked by the agency for alleged corruption in coal block allocations.
V Narayanasamy, however, refrained from commenting on the accusations of former Coal Secretary P C Parakh, accused in one of the cases, against Prime Minister for taking final decision on coal blocks allocation.