The Supreme Court Friday appointed Punjab and Haryana High Court senior counsel R.S. Cheema as the special public prosecutor in the case relating to alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks before a special CBI judge.
An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha also approved the appointment of Sessions Judge Bharat Parashar as a judge of the special CBI court that will hear the case on a day-to-day basis.