Commerce & Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Wednesday advised agencies government like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that they shouldn't go for overreach or play to the gallery.

Referring to recent filing of an FIR against leading industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla in connection with coal blocks allocation scam by the CBI, Sharma said such moves would create an atmosphere of sensation and shock and hurt investments.

In the FIR registered against Kumar Mangalam, the CBI charged the 46-year-old chief of the Aditya Birla Group with cheating and conspiracy. The investigative agency alleged that Kumar Mangalam's firm Hindalco received undue favour in the process of coal block allocation scam.

Opposing the agency's move, Sharma said, "We have due process which is followed in decision making. The institutions or the various authorities who have some constitutional duties to discharge should not go for overreach or play to the gallery."

He also argued that there was nothing wrong in Kumar Mangalam's meeting with the Prime Minister in the year 2005 for grant of coal mining licence. He supported the meeting saying it was industrialists' right to plead their case before ministers.

Meanwhile, the CBI has recovered Rs 25 crore in cash from Hindalco's Delhi office during a raid carried out as part of the agency's ongoing probe in the coal block allocation scam.