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A Delhi court framed additional charges of abetment of bribery against industrialist Naveen Jindal and others on Thursday for alleged money laundering in a case pertaining to irregularities in allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.

Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar asked Gupta and Jain to cooperate with the probe while granting them bail on personal bond of Rs one lakh each and surety of a like amount.

The latest FIRs have been lodged by the central probe agency against firms based in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Delhi, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh, official sources said.

The court summoned them as accused after taking cognisance of CBI's charge sheet filed in the case relating to allocation of Kesla North coal block in Chhattisgarh to Rathi Steel and Power Ltd (RSPL).