A special court would pass an order later this month on the issue of sanction to prosecute public servants in coal scam cases, saying "no fruitful purpose" would be served by waiting further for the decision of the competent authority in the matter.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar noted that in a number of coal block allocation cases, in which records have been sent to the competent authority for considering sanction to try public servants, no decision has been taken yet.
"However, as has been observed in a number of other cases, no decision of the competent authority in the said and other cases on the said issue (sanction to try public servants) has yet been received.
"In these circumstances, I am of the considered opinion that no fruitful purpose will be served now by simply awaiting for the decision of the competent authority," the judge said.
"Accordingly, put up for passing of necessary orders on the supplementary final report (filed by CBI in VMPL's case) on July 29," the court said.
The court was hearing a coal scam case allegedly involving Vikash Metal and Power Limited (VMPL) and others.
The court noted that in its May 8 order, it had observed that in various case certain issues were involved which primarily pertained to considering according of sanction to prosecute certain public servants by the competent authority.
Earlier, the court had said it would consider the CBI's supplementary final report only after some finality was arrived at on the issue of according sanction to prosecute government servants by the competent authority.
CBI had filed the supplementary final report on April 7 in pursuance to an order passed in October last year in which the court had refused to accept the closure report and had directed the agency to further investigate the case.
The case pertains to alleged irregularities in allocation of Moira and Madhujore (North and South) coal blocks in West Bengal to VMPL.
