Court summons does not make one guilty, says Congress spokesman Sanjay Jha

Sanjay Jha tweeted that it was former PM Singh who pushed for auctions in coal block allocations.

With former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh summoned as accused by a special court in a coal scam case, Congress today said that receiving court summons does not make one guilty.

“Sorry to puncture the brouhaha, but receiving a court summons does not make one guilty. That is elementary law.
Right?”, party spokesman Sanjay Jha said in a series of tweets.

Sorry to puncture the brouhaha, but receiving a court summons does not make one guilty. That is elementary law. Right??

— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) March 11, 2015

Jha insisted that it was former PM Singh who pushed for auctions in coal block allocations. “He sought transparency, resisted by BJP-ruled states”.

It was former PM Dr Manmohan Singh who pushed for auctions in coal block allocations. He sought transparency, resisted by BJP-ruled states

— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) March 11, 2015

“The truth is coal block dubious allocations were all in non-Congress ruled states; MP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, WB etc”, he said.

Singh, industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary P C Parakh and three others were today summoned as accused by a special court in a coal scam case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked to appear before it on April 8.

Source:: Indian Express