Supreme Court Appoints Two Judges To Conduct Trials In Coal Scam Cases

A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde considered the five names of judicial officers provided by the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and said that it assumed that "all the judges are good."

The Supreme Court on Monday appointed two judicial officers, Arun Bhardwaj and Sanjay Bansal, as special judges to conduct trials in the sensational coal scam cases pending since 2014 here. Earlier special judge Bharat Parashar was conducting trials in around 40 coal scam cases and has been replaced by two judges after the top court recently took note of a letter from the Delhi High Court's Registrar General that permission be granted to nominate or post another suitable presiding judicial officer as special judge in place of Parashar. A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde considered the five names of judicial officers provided by the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and said that it assumed that "all the judges are good." The bench, also comprising Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, instead of appointing one special judge to replace Parashar, nominated two Presiding Officers to conduct trials after special public prosecutor R S Cheema suggested so.