Mafia within coal ministry, PC Parakh said in 2005

"Coal mafia is not outside the government. It exists within the Coal Ministry," wrote former coal secretary PC Parakh in 2005 in a letter that has been accessed by media. "…MPs are indulged in blackmailing civil servants to meet their personal ends… There is large-scale generation of black money through patronage of coal mafia in the current system," added Parakh.