The CBI has opened cupboards of Congress MP Naveen Jindal, who returned from abroad on Thursday night, after he was asked to join its probe in the allocation of a coal block to his company Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, JSPL.

During the searches conducted on June 11, CBI was unable to complete its operation at Jindal’s 6-Prithviraj Road residence in New Delhi as some of the cupboards and almirahs were locked and they could only be unlocked by the MP who was out with his family at that time.

The CBI sources said, a search team went to his residence yesterday and searched the cupboards and almirahs in the presence of Mr Jindal, who has been named in its FIR along with former Minister of State for Coal D Narayan Rao for alleged cheating and graft.

CBI had communicated to Mr Jindal to join the probe as soon as possible since these cupboards and almirahs could be opened only after his arrival.

According to the FIR, JSPL and Gagan Sponge Iron Ltd, also a firm belonging to Mr Jindal, had bagged Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block in Jharkhand in 2008 by alleged misrepresentation of facts when Mr Rao was the Minister of State for Coal.