HC suspends jail term of ex-Union Minister Dilip Ray in coal scam case

Delhi HC on Tuesday suspended the three-year sentence awarded to former Union Minister of State Dilip Ray for illegally allocating a coal block in Jharkhand to a private company in 1999. Ray was part of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government that was acting as a caretaker government when this particular allocation was approved.