Chhattisgarh police has busted a gang in Raigarh district that was allegedly planning to supply low-grade coal to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).
“The gang was engaged in exchanging a portion of high grade coal with the low grade after transporting it from different mines and supplying it to plants set up across the district,” Raigarh Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh said. Seven persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, he added.
During the raid, carried out on a specific tip off, the police recovered 101.30 tonnes of mixed coal from the spot. Singh said the stocked coal was