New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed the proceedings in the Special CBI court against Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia till April 16, who has been summoned as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir issued notice to CBI seeking its response on the petition filed by Ruia challenging the Special CBI Court's...
08:30 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: In the proposed third round of spectrum auction, the government may put on block 2G GSM airwaves in Delhi and Mumbai circles and CDMA spectrum in 13 circles that remained unsold in the previous sale held last month, sources said. The government earlier had said that it would conduct the third round of auction putting on block all 2G spectrum freed from cancellation of 122 licences, after the...
09:48 PM, Apr 09, 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: The Supreme Court on Monday offered partial relief to Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal and six others by directing the 2G case trial court not to withhold hearing till April 16, 2013 but also said it was free to proceed against any person not named in a charge sheet if there were material evidences against them. Hearing Mittal's plea, the court said it would examine April 15, 2013...
05:13 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: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear the case against Bharti Cellular's CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal. He is one of the accused in allocation of 2G spectrum on 2002. However Mittal has contended that he cannot be singularly blamed for the alleged acts of the firm. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir will also be hearing Bharti Airtel's plea challenging the Delhi High Court order giving...
08:30 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a plea of Sunil Bharti Mittal, CMD of Bharti Cellular Limited, against his summoning as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir will also be hearing Bharti Airtel's plea challenging the Delhi High Court order giving its nod to the Centre's decision holding the 3G roaming...
03:35 PM, Apr 07, 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
The chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the 2G case, PC Chacko, on Tuesday said that the PM could be summoned before the panel only if the majority of the members agreed upon it. Reacting to committee member and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha's letter to the PM asking him to appear before the panel, Chacko said that no member of the committee had the right to summon anybody...
05:15 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 Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Bharti Cellular Limited CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal's plea challenging the March 19 order of the special court summoning him as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum during the 2002 NDA regime. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir agreed to give an early hearing and posted the matter to April 8. ...
01:33 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
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 wrong," said...
03:03 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Former telecom minister A Raja has defended the Telecom Ministry's decision to bypass the Law Ministry in seeking legal opinion of the then Solicitor General GE Vahanvati directly on 2G issue saying it was "perfectly permissible" to approach the law officer in certain cases. Raja told the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G issue that it is "perfectly permissible" for a government department to seek the opinion of a law...
12:01 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Former Telecom Minister A Raja has told a Joint Parliamentary Committee that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was fully aware of telecom policy decisions and has accused Attorney General GE Vahanvati of telling a "series of untruths" against him. Responding to a questionnaire sent by the committee, Raja said both Prime Minister and the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee were kept informed on the licensing policy. ...
02:18 PM, Mar 24, 2013
