A gold-medalist from the University of Roorkee (now IITRoorkee), PC Parakh worked as a Mining Geologist for National Mineral Development Corporation and..
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1, if that allocation was a conspiracy. PC Parakh who along with Hindalco chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla was named by the CBI in its latest charges-sheet in the ongoing case of coal block allocations, had refrained from hitting out at
the PM directly when he appeared in TV news channels in June, He then said that PM who was coal minister for long could have put his foot down in getting coal blocks auctioned.
In fact, Parakh was known to be a whistle-blower in the case, often nicknamed as coalgate.
He used RTI to access his own communications as coal secretary with then cabinet secretary BK Chaturvedi for the period of When cabinet secretariat denied parting with the information, Parakh approached Central Information Commission.
Many believed