New Delhi: Former union minister Dilip Ray has been sentenced to a three year imprisonment in a coal scam case pertaining to the alleged irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block in 1999.
Apart from the former Union Minister, the Special CBI court also handed three years’ jail to two individual who were also convicted recently in the matter.
Dilip Ray Ray was then minister of state (coal) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
PNN/Agencies