印度一个特别法庭星期三传唤前总理辛格。他被控任职期间在出售煤田交易中犯有贪腐罪。
法官命令辛格和其他五人4月8日出庭.
在辛格担任总理期间，印度政府出售了200多个煤田，但印度政府审计员2012年表示，当时是在没有竞标的情况下签订合同，致使政府蒙受了数十亿美元损失。印度最高法院去年做出裁决，认为交易过程非法。
辛格担任总理期间的国大党政府遭到一系列腐败指控的打击。其中还包括审计人员报道的在2010年英联邦运动会期间销售手机牌照损失的400亿美元，和普片的贪污。
国大党发言人特瓦里说，“前政府绝对没有任何东西可以隐瞒”，并自称行事方式绝对透明。
辛格从2004年至去年担任印度总理。辛格去职后，人民党的莫迪接任总理。
A special court in India on Wednesday summoned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to face corruption charges related to the sale of coal fields under his government.
Judges ordered Mr. Singh and five others in the case to appear on April 8.
The government sold more than 200 coal blocks during Mr. Singh's time, but India's national auditor said in 2012 that awarding the contracts without competitive bidding cost the government billions of dollars. The supreme court ruled last year the process was illegal.
The charges are part of a string of corruption allegations to hit the Congress party-led government during Mr. Singh's time as prime minister, which also included auditors reporting $40 billion in losses in the sale of mobile phone licenses and widespread graft during the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Congress Party spokesman Manish Tewari said "the former government has absolutely nothing to hide" and that they conducted themselves with utmost transparency.
Mr. Singh was prime minister from 2004 until last year. He was replaced by Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
