CBI files closure report against Kumar Mangalam Birla in coal block allocation scam

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a closure report in the coal block allocation scam against Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group, and others in a court in the national capital, sources said on Friday.

The investigation agency on Thursday filed its closure report in the court of Special Judge Bharat Parashar, who will hear the matter on September 1.

The CBI had booked Birla as a representative of the Aditya Birla Group and his group company Hindalco, one of Asia's biggest producers of primary aluminium, on charges of criminal conspiracy in the allocation of coal blocks.

The agency had registered a first information report in October 2013 against the industrialist.