New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi wasted no time in attacking the BJP after a CAG officer levelled charges against one of its prominent members saying that he influenced the agency's 2G report. Principal auditor RP Singh had alleged that BJP leader and Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) MM Joshi had influenced the 2G report. Speaking to reporters, Sonia said, "The BJP is exposed." When asked whether the row...
01:09 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Friday said that the allegations by CAG principal auditor RP Singh against its 2G report will be discussed in Parliament. ...
10:50 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi of the BJP on Friday refuted charges by ex-CAG audit officer RP Singh that he had influenced the agency's report on 2G spectrum, saying that they were baseless. Speaking to reporters, Joshi said that the government was merely trying to defame CAG. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, ex-CAG principal auditor RP Singh had alleged that the CAG's 2G report had been...
10:40 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: The man who authored the CAG's report on 2G spectrum has now said that it is not his report, that it merely carried his signature. Speaking to CNN-IBN, ex-CAG audit officer RP Singh said that the audit was done without guidelines and was influenced by PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi. He further said that the loss figure mentioned in the report was presumptive and had been restored in...
10:17 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: CAG's ex-principal auditor RP Singh on Friday made startling revelations about the agency's 2G report saying that it was audited without guidelines and influenced by Public Accounts Committee Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Singh further stated that the loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore was presumptive, which he had deleted from the draft report but which was restored in the final copy....
08:18 AM, Nov 23, 2012
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10:11 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Chairman of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee Murli Manohar Joshi has refuted allegations that he had put pressure on the CAG's office over the 2G report. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, he also questioned the credibility of the lead CAG auditor RP Singh who alleged that he was forced to accept the Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss figure. "The credibility of RP Singh itself is a suspect. If RP Singh...
08:40 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has sparked a controversy as he tried to draw a link between Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Murli Manohan Joshi and CAG Vinod Rai over the 2G final report. Indirectly blaming PAC Chiarman for the 2G report mess, he said that the CAG must answer the need for Murli Manohar Joshi to call CAG office before the report was put up to the...
12:10 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta wrote a note directing RP Singh to put his signatures on the last page of the report. ...
10:46 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Did the 2G scam cost the country Rs 1.76 lakh crore or was that figure inflated? RP Singh, the lead auditor of the CAG who investigated the scam, on Monday told the Joint Parlimentary Committee that he was forced into signing on the inflated loss amount. CNN-IBN has accesed letters which prove that RP Singh was indeed under preassure. Internal notes show RP Singh may have been arm...
06:13 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Monday said it will examine the Comptroller Auditor General over the Rs 2645 crore versus 1.76 lakh crore figure in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. They also added that the Finance secretary will also be examined in the case. Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure in the 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai on Sunday had offered to appear before...
02:15 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Even as stormy scenes were expected at Monday's meeting of the Publi Accounts Committee (PAC), the meeting on CAG losses has been cancelled after Congress members created a ruckus. The PAC was supposed to question RP Singh, one of the auditors of the CAG's 2G report. However, Congress MPs objected to the presence of CAG Vinod Rai during R P Singh's deposition. NDA members opposed this contention and...
12:42 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, looking into the 2G spectrum allocation case, has summoned a key author of the CAG report on the 2G scam. Auditor RP Singh, who had disagreed with the loss estimate of Rs 1.76 lakh crore, has been summoned to court on Monday. Singh earlier had dissented with the manner in which the 2G allocation was audited. Sources say he will be asked whether...
07:26 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss in 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai has offered to appear before the JPC looking into the 2G scam once again. Rai recently wrote to JPC offering to make himself along with his officials 'available' whenever their 'assistance' is sought. Rai, along with other officials of the Comptroller and Auditor General, had appeared before...
11:53 AM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN exposed the letters exchanged between two senior Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) officers, deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and RP Singh, in the CAG office on the issue of the 2G loss figures of a whopping Rs 1,76,000 crores. The Congress is now using it to sharpen its attack against the CAG . RP Singh, the auditor who put his signatures on the CAG report in...
09:47 PM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: More proof of the split in the CAG office has surfaced over the calculation of 2G losses. CNN-IBN has copies of top secret notes exchanged between Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and DG (Audit) RP Singh which shows that Singh was being coerced into toeing a line that Gupta and CAG Vinod Rai had already worked out. A letter written by Gupta accused Singh of not auditing the 2G...
06:04 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: Fireworks are expected at the Public Accounts committee (PAC) meet on Monday with the Opposition set to tear into the government on the finance ministry's 2G note, while the Congress will try to rebut the CAG's alleged inflated losses in the spectrum allocation. PAC has decided to call Deputy CAG RP Singh to depose as witness. CAG Vinod Rai and Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta will depose to explain...
01:09 PM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: In more embarrassment for the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in the 2G probe, CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a letter written by lead auditor RP Singh, questioning not just the Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss estimate, but the entire CAG investigation. Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai has been toasted by the nation for exposing the biggest scam in the country. His 2G probe became the...
11:00 PM, Oct 04, 2011
New Delhi: In what could be more embarrassing for the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in the 2G spectrum scam probe, CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a letter written by RP Singh, lead auditor in CAG's 2G probe, questioning the entire investigation. In the letter RP Singh says, "We are not on strong grounds in the arguments made." Singh also wrote in the letter that however since Headquarters have...
06:04 PM, Oct 04, 2011
