Not worried about CBI's coal scam FIR: KM Birla after meeting Chidu

Industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, who has been named in CBI’s FIR in connection with coal block allocations to Hindalco, said that he is not worried about the FIR since he has done nothing wrong. He said thistoday after meeting Finance Minister P Chidambaram

“I met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and discussed various issues. I am not worried about the FIR,” Birla told CNN-IBN.

[caption id=“attachment_1180445” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Kumar Mangalam Birla. Reuters[/caption]

The meeting followed CBI’s 14th FIR pertaining to the coal allocation scam which named Birla.

He also added that he does not think that the FIR will affect his banking license.

Meanwhile he also told Times Now, “Life goes on. I have done nothing wrong.”

The CBI had booked Birla as a representative of Aditya Birla Group and his group company Hindalco. The said company is one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia and the CBI has alleged corruption in the allocation of the Talabira II coal blocks in Odisha which was allotted to the company on November 10, 2005.

However, corporate India has been extremely upset after Birla, Hindalco and Nalco were named by the CBI in the coal scam FIR and raised the concern that India is returning to the 1980s-like time when industrialists were hounded by the government.

With agency inputs