Attorney General GE Vahanvati has reiterated his earlier statements that a press release allegedly approved by him in connection with 2G spectrum allocation. ...
01:49 PM, Feb 27, 2013
New Delhi: Two days after getting bail from the Supreme Court in the 2G case, former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura was on Friday released from the Tihar Jail after a lapse of over 15 months since his arrest. Behura, arrested on February 2 last year along with former Telecom Minister A Raja, stepped out of of the jail in evening after their lawyers furnished the bail bond before Special CBI...
07:57 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former Union telecom minister A Raja, who has been facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, has moved a Delhi court seeking bail. The accused in the 2G spectrum scam has been behind bars for 15 months. He moved the court for the bail hours after former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura was granted bail by the court. Notably, as many as 14 people were arrested in...
04:26 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura in the 2G spectrum scam case. Behura got the bail on Rs 5 lakh surety and Rs 10 lakh bond. Nineteen individuals, including former telecom minister A Raja, and six companies are accused in the case. Fourteen people were arrested. ...
03:01 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Saturday said arguments on the framing of charges against some top corporate honchos from Loop Telecom and Essar Group will commence May 3. Special CBI Judge OP Saini put, for May 3, the arguments on framing of charges and bail application of Ravi Essar Group promoters Ravi Ruia and Anshuman Ruia, Loop Telecom promoters IP Khaitan and Kiran Khaitan...
07:32 PM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: Former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation case, has sought more time from a Parliamentary panel examining the telecom policies to appear before it. The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) had decided to summon Behura as a witness before it on April 11 and 18 and a CBI court had recently granted him permission to appear before the panel. But Behura lodged in Tihar...
05:28 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja and ex-telecom secretary Siddharth Behura will be summoned to depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the 2G scam. "We have decided to call Raja and Behura. While the date for Raja's appearance is not yet decided, Behura will be summoned on April 11," JPC Chairman PC Chacko said on Wednesday after the committee's meeting. Since Behura is lodged in Tihar jail,...
09:27 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) will hear the bail petitions of A Raja's former private secretary RK Chandolia and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura on Friday in the 2G spectrum scam case. Chandolia was former Telecom Minister A Raja's private secretary during UPA (I) rule, while Behura was the Telecom Secretary who signed on the files that formalised the sale of 2G licenses. Reports say it was Chandolia who...
07:39 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister A Raja, the prime accused facing trial in the 2G case, on Thursday completed one year in jail since his arrest in the high-profile scam. Raja, who was the first one to be arrested in the case on February 2, last year, is languishing behind the bars as he has not yet moved any application for release on bail. Besides Raja, former Telecom Secretary Siddharth...
07:43 PM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: Former telecom secretary Nripendra Misra is expected to depose against former telecom minister A Raja in a Delhi Court in connection with the 2G spectrum scam case on Wednesday. Misra who was also the TRAI chairman is a key witness in the case. The CBI on Tuesday submitted details of the correspondence between Misra and telecommunication department officials, including former telecom secretaries Siddhartha Behura and D S Mathur...
08:59 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: The lawyer for accused former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura completed the cross examination of Aseervatham Achary in the 2G spectrum scam. He was a close aide of former telecom minister A Raja and has implicated the former telecom minister and others. Achary again refuted the suggestion that he was a CBI influenced witness in the case. He also said that even after January 2008, the 2G scam co-accused...
12:53 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The lawyer for accused former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura is set to cross-examine Aseervatham Achary in the 2G spectrum scam. He was a close aide of former telecom minister A Raja and has implicated the former telecom minister and others. The hearing on Monday was adjourned after he claimed he was feeling unwell. A Raja's lawyer Sushil Kumar on Monday completed cross examination of Aseervatham Achary, but failed...
07:30 AM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the CBI on bail pleas of A Raja's former private secretary RK Chandolia and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura in the 2G spectrum scam case. Chandolia has sought a stay on the Delhi High Court's order that questioned granting of bail to him. In December, a trial court had given bail to Chandolia and thereafter the High Court had issued...
11:26 AM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura in the 2G spectrum scam. The former telecom secretary was arrested along with former telecom minister A Raja on February 2 in the 2G scam. He has been charged with criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery. "The bail application is dismissed," Justice VK Shali told a jam-packed courtroom, pronouncing his judgement on Behura's...
02:48 PM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to pronounce its order on the bail plea of former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura in the 2G spectrum scam. The former telecom secretary was arrested along with former telecom minister A Raja on February 2 in the 2G scam. He has been charged with criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery. The court had reserved its order on Behura's bail plea on December 1...
08:07 AM, Dec 16, 2011
New Delhi: Cooling his heels in Tihar jail since February this year after his arrest for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum case, former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura on Friday approached the Delhi High Court to know the fate of his bail plea on which the court had reserved its order over a week ago. Appearing for Behura, counsel Aman Lekhi pointed out to Justice VK Shali that his...
08:19 PM, Dec 09, 2011
New Delhi: A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Thursday granted bail to R K Chandolia, the private secretary of former telecom minister A Raja, in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Chandolia was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs three lakh. However, the court reserved its order on the bail plea of former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura. Behura was arrested along with former telecom...
08:29 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought CBI's response on the bail plea of former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, arrested for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum case. Issuing notice to CBI, Justice Shali also asked the probe agency to file a status report by December 1, the date on which the bail pleas of other five accused including DMK MP Kanimozhi are also slated for hearing....
12:40 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: Former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, arrested for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, on Tuesday accused the CBI in a Delhi court of discriminating among various accused in the case by not opposing their bail pleas for political considerations. "The prosecution is making distinction (among accused). It shows there is political intrusion in the legal process," senior advocate Aman Lekhi said while referring to the...
03:11 PM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: Jailed former telecom secretary, Siddharth Behura on Wednesday dragged RBI governor and then finance secretary D Subbarao into the 2G case, accusing him of not revising the spectrum license fee. Behura told the court, he was only a bureaucrat and had no role except to implement Government policy. "The entire Cabinet has collective responsibility for the policy that was formulated. The Government has publicly defended the policy. Why...
08:46 PM, Jul 27, 2011
