{
 "no": 85,
 "id": "case-85",
 "sk": 20171213,
 "year": 2017,
 "date": "Allocation 2007; convicted Dec 2017",
 "cat": "Public money",
 "sev": "amber",
 "title": "Madhu Koda. A chief minister convicted over a coal block",
 "stamp": "Convicted. Three years.",
 "human": {
  "v": "A state's mineral wealth allocated through a chief minister's office",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A coal block in Jharkhand recommended to a private company against process",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda was convicted in December 2017, along with a former Union coal secretary and others, of criminal conspiracy and corruption over the allocation of the Rajhara North coal block to a Kolkata company, and sentenced to three years.",
 "dodge": "The conviction took a decade from the allocation. It is one of the few on this ledger where a head of government was actually convicted, and it is recorded here for that reason as much as any other. The wider allocations system that produced it had already been struck down by the Supreme Court by then.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Madhu Koda",
   "r": "Jharkhand Chief Minister; convicted Dec 2017, sentenced to three years"
  },
  {
   "n": "Ministry of Coal",
   "r": "Screening committee that processed the recommendation"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "Koda maintained his innocence and appealed; he was subsequently barred from contesting elections after the Supreme Court declined to suspend the conviction.",
 "alt": "Allocation by auction, which is what the law now requires, arrived at without needing a decade of litigation first.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Tribune: Jharkhand ex-CM Koda convicted in coal case",
   "url": "https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/nation/coal-scam-jharkhand-ex-cm-madhu-koda-held-guilty-of-corruption-512618",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "Scroll: SC dismisses Koda's plea to contest polls",
   "url": "https://scroll.in/latest/1074929/sc-dismisses-former-jharkhand-cm-madhu-kodas-plea-seeking-suspension-of-conviction-to-contest-polls",
   "tier": 2
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-85/"
}