Chandigarh: With BJP dubbing the draft JPC report on 2G spectrum scam as a "cover-up" attempt to save the government, Union Minister Manish Tewari on Saturday said the party is unnecessarily raking up the issue as a debate could be held on the report when it is presented in Parliament. "The draft JPC report has been sent to members. Thereafter, the JPC will have a meeting and members can place...
02:00 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Washington: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday refused to comment on the JPC draft report which gives him a clean chit in the 2G scam, saying that he has "never been concerned" about the allegations. "I have never been concerned about these allegations. In fact my concern has been the fraction of the media's concern," he told a select group of journalists here. The Joint Parliamentary Committee has given a...
01:41 PM, Apr 20, 2013
The JPC on the 2G spectrum scam on Thursday gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram, saying that the duo was not informed of the change in policy by the then telecom minister A Raja. Do newspaper accounts of the JPC draft report suggest it is both controversial and unlikely to be formally adopted by the committee? ...
10:39 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: The draft JPC report on 2G scam has questioned NDA's decision to grant concessions to telecom companies on licence fee despite protests by Telecom Minister Jagmohan and says the then government had to "forego" over Rs 42,000 crore in offering Migration Package to cellular operators. On the issue of extending concessions to telecom operators such as moratorium on payment of licence fee, the panel said the government went...
07:16 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Bangalore: Questioning the clean chit given by the Joint Parliamentary Committee to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 2G spectrum allocation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley on Friday accused Congress of using the JPC to "subvert" the truth. Jaitley said former Telecom Minister A Raja's correspondence with the Prime Minister made it clear that Singh and the then Finance Minister (P Chidambaram) were fully in the loop of...
04:50 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja accused in the 2G scam has said that he took all decisions in the spectrum allocation in consultation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Responding to the Joint Parliamentary Committee clean chit to Manmohan Singh and then finance minister P Chidambaram, Raja said he will send a detailed report to the JPC. "I did everything in consultation with the Prime Minister. I have full...
01:46 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Bharti Cellular Ltd CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia will appear in the Supreme Court on Thursday to challenge a special 2G court summons issued to them. It has been alleged that Airtel was allotted extra spectrum during the NDA regime by the then telecom minister Pramod Mahajan. Mittal and the CBI's lawyers will argue on Thursday on whether the summons should stand. A...
10:27 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: With one of the judges recusing himself, the Supreme Court on Monday deferred the hearing till Thursday on the pleas of Bharti Cellular Ltd CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia challenging the summons issued to them as accused in a graft case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002. Though the apex court posted the hearing for April 18, the CBI said...
06:56 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will take up Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia's petition challenging the summons of the CBI special court on Monday in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of mobile phone bandwidth during the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance regime in 2002. Mittal and Ruia were summoned by the court as an accused along with Asim Ghosh, the former...
07:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: A day after Sunil Bharti Mittal, CMD of Bharti Cellular Ltd, got a temporary relief in a graft case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002, Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia also moved the Supreme Court challenging the Special CBI Court's order summoning him as an accused in the case. Ruia, whose name was not mentioned as an accused in CBI's FIR and chargesheet filed before...
08:45 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha has hit out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yet again saying his offer to appear before the 2G Public Accounts Committee was not sincere as he has refused to appear before the Joint Parliamentary committee. He also said he was disappointed with the Prime Minister's response to his letter in the 2G case. "You had made a grand offer to appear before...
10:28 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who is a member of the JPC on 2G issue, on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stating he is "surprised and disappointed" over his refusal to depose before the panel. Sinha, who earlier written a letter to Singh asking that he should present himself before the Joint Parliamentary Committee, said he was unhappy with the response of the Prime Minister, through a...
08:56 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Responding to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's rejection of BJP's demand that he appear before the JPC in 2G spectrum allocation case, the opposition on Wednesday said if he has nothing to hide and since he had offered to depose before the PAC, he should not shy away from the panel. "The Prime Minister had earlier written to Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairperson Murli Manohar Joshi that he is...
07:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rejected Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha's demand that he must appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee in the 2G scam case. The Prime Minister has also rejected Yashwant Sinha's allegations against him in the case. ...
03:33 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The BJP once again targeted the the chief of the JPC probing the 2G case. Yashwant Sinha wrote to the PM against PC Chacko asking why former Telecom Minister A Raja had not been asked to depose. ...
11:11 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Joint Parliamentary Committee Chairman PC Chacko has hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party leader for his letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the 2G scam. Chacko has said, "Yashwant Sinha's letter to the Prime Minister is a political stunt and against norms." ...
02:07 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party has hit out at 2G Joint Parliamentary Committee Chairman PC Chacko again for not calling former telecom minister A Raja to depose. BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has demanded that former telecom minister A Raja be called to depose as he is equally culpable as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G case. ...
12:32 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Bharti Cellular Limited CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal on Monday approached the Supreme Court challenging the March 19 order of the special 2G court summoning him as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional spectrum during the NDA regime in 2002. Mittal, whose name was not mentioned in the CBI's charge sheet as an accused, was, however, summoned by the special CBI court saying there was "enough...
09:14 PM, Apr 01, 2013
BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, a member of the JPC probing the 2G scam, on Monday wrote to the PM asking him to appear before the panel. Citing former Telecom Minister A Raja's communication to JPC, Sinha asked PM Manmohan Singh to appear before the committee to 'clear his name' following allegations levelled against him. ...
08:57 PM, Apr 01, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has hit out at JPC Chairman PC Chacko for what it calls delaying the proceedings in the 2G scam case and dragging his feet on calling former telecom A Raja to depose before the panel. "For some strange reason our chairman PC Chacko is neither calling a meeting of the JPC nor is inviting Raja to appear as a witness. There is something seriously...
03:03 PM, Apr 01, 2013
