{"id":8428,"date":"2015-03-11T14:26:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/court-summoning-for-manmohan-singh\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:26:28","slug":"court-summoning-for-manmohan-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/court-summoning-for-manmohan-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Summoning for Manmohan Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>India ex-PM is Caught in Coal Corruption Scandal<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/manmohan-singh-coal-corruption-case-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s former prime minister Manmohan Singh has been summoned to court following his alleged involvement in a coal mining licenses scandal.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Singh is one of six men who face accusations of criminal conspiracy and have been ordered to appear in court next month concerning corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Federal auditors found that rights to coalfields were sold off cheaply in 2012, resulting in the country losing out on \u00a320bn.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Supreme Court has cancelled the majority of the coal mining licenses allocated by the government since 1999, stating that they were illegal.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The court summoning of Mr Singh is due to a coal mining license awarded in 2005 when he was prime minister and held the coal ministry portfolio, a matter which he has already been questioned regarding by the federal Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The ex-prime minister said concerning the allegations that he was \u201copen for legal scrutiny\u201d and that the &#8220;truth will prevail&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be able to establish my total innocence. Of course I am upset, but this is part of life,&#8221; Mr Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Singh faces a sentence to life in jail if found guilty of the charges, though this is said to be unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India ex-PM is Caught in Coal Corruption Scandal India&#8217;s former prime minister Manmohan Singh has been summoned to court following his alleged involvement in a coal mining licenses scandal. &#13; Mr Singh is one of six men who face accusations of criminal conspiracy and have been ordered to appear in court next month concerning corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}