India News: In what may spell further trouble for Ashwini Kumar and make his position as the Union Law Minister untenable, the CBI submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Monday in which they have admitted that changes were made in the report on coal block allocations before it was shared with the judges.

The CBI in its nine page affidavit told the apex court that the Law Minister had indeed doctored the draft status report regarding coal scam and that paragraphs critical of the PMO had been removed by him.

"The tentative finding about non-existence of a system regarding allocation of specific weightage/ points was deleted at the instance of the officials of PMO and coal ministry.