Within a day after the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) gave permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to question the former coal secretary, H C Gupta, who is a member of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), has resigned from his current post. Sources said Gupta submitted his resignation to the government on Wednesday.
Gupta has been a member of the CCI since 2009 and his tenure was to end to early next year.
The resignation came soon after MCA gave its nod to CBI to question Gupta in connection with the coal blocks allocation scam. Gupta was the coal Secretary between 2006 and 2009, the period which is under the scanner of the CBI for alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks.
?Gupta submitted his resignation yesterday and the same will be processed by the government,? a source said.
During the 2006-09 period, 68 coal blocks were alloted to 151 companies and files of some of them had gone missing. CBI, which is probing the coal block allocation scam, has registered 12 FIRs related to alleged irregularities in the allotment coal blocks between 2006 and 2009.
