Deposing as a CBI witness, J P Bhagoria, an official of Bank of Baroda here, said that on March 11, 2013, he had gone to CBI office where some other bank officials were present and from there they along with agency sleuths went to a house in Panchsheel Park here for search.
He said that after reaching the house, the CBI officers conducted the search and recovered various documents from there.
During his cross examination, he denied the suggestions of the defence counsel that he was a planted or tutored witness and was deposing falsely at the instance of CBI.
The court concluded recording of statement of Bhagoria and fixed the matter for July 7 for further evidence.
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Besides JIPL, its two directors R S Rungta and R C Rungta, are facing trial in the case in which they are accused of securing allotment of North Dhadu coal block in Jharkhand allegedly on the basis of false and forged documents.
Both the Rungtas were granted bail by the court earlier after they had appeared before it in pursuance to summons.
Besides these three, Ramabatar Kedia and Naresh Mahto were also summoned as accused but since both have died, the proceedings against them have been abated by the court.
In its charge sheet, CBI said it had found that JIPL had "grossly misrepresented" a number of aspects before the ministries of Steel and Coal to inflate their claim, thereby inducing Coal Ministry officers and the screening committee to allocate the coal block to them.