New Delhi: Former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, a key prosecution witness in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, is likely to appear before a Delhi court on May 28 to depose in the case. The CBI on Thursday submitted before Special CBI Judge OP Saini its list of prosecution witnesses to be called for recording of their statements before the court and Radia's evidence is slated for May 28.
Radia, who was scheduled to appear in court on December 5,2012 to testify as a CBI witness, had earlier sought three months time on the ground that she had reportedly undergone a surgery for a neurological ailment.
The CBI, in its charge sheet filed on April 2, 2011 against former Telecom Minister A Raja and others, had named Radia as a prosecution witness in the case.
Radia's statement assumes significance as she, in her statement recorded during the probe under section 161 of the CrPC (dealing with examination of witnesses) before CBI, had said that Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd, facing trial in the 2G case, was not "eligible" to get the Unified Access Service (UAS) Licences....
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05:25 PM, May 09, 2013
A six-member CBI and Income Tax team has begun its work of examining over 5800 tapes of tapped conversation of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos and others. ...
06:34 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday set up a six-member team to examine tapes containing conversation of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and others. The team, constituting of five Central Bureau of Investigation officers and one Income Tax officer, has been asked to submit its report within four months. ...
04:20 PM, Feb 21, 2013
The Supreme Court will examine the tapes containing phone calls made from and to corporate lobbyist Nira Radia for suspected criminality. In its previous hearing, the Supreme Court stated that conversations will be picked at random from any of the 48 envelopes containing the transcripts of over 5,000 calls. The CBI will probe the matter if the court finds any criminality in the conversations. ...
09:20 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Transcripts of 5,800 tapped telephone conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos including former Tata Chief Ratan Tata were on Tuesday placed by the government before the Supreme Court, which said it would go through them before deciding the course of action. ...
06:00 PM, Jan 08, 2013
New Delhi: A screenplay, based on the leaked phone conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with various public personalities, by artist collective CAMP, finds itself in shortlist for Rs 10 lakh Skoda Art Prize 2012. The artwork titled "Pal, Pal, Pal, Pal..." is a formal response to the "leaks", through a treatment of the Radia tapes as a screenplay accompanied by an audio guide, according to the Mumbai-based artist group...
03:24 PM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Central government on Tuesday rejected before the Supreme Court the allegation that the tapped conversation of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia was leaked from its side. The apex court has, however, expressed displeasure and told the government that the probe report on Radia tape leakage was hardly satisfactory. The Supreme Court has pulled up the government for not putting in place a mechanism to prevent such leakage of...
01:13 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The crew of the film '100000000000', the story of which is said to have been inspired by the life of controversial political lobbyist Niira Radia who shot to limelight after the 2G scam, will fly to Goa today. According to sources, some of the important sequences and songs of the film are to be shot in exotic locales. The movie is being directed by V Srinivasan Sundar and...
04:38 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: On day two of the 2G spectrum scam trial former telecom minister A raja started his defence by saying that he had not implicated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or the then Finance Minister P Chidambarm and it was the media that had misquoted him. However, minutes later Raja went back to attacking all concerned in the 2G case. Raja started off with targetting the Comptroller Auditor General Vinod...
08:55 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition seeking a direction to the CBI to make Reliance ADAG chairman Anil Ambani, Tata Group chief Ratan Tata, corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and DMK chief M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal, as accused in 2G case. "It is a rubbish petition. If I find that we you (petitioner) have tried to interfere with the investigation then you may...
02:53 PM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will take up on Tuesday Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata's plea on the right to privacy after the leakage of his telephonic conversations with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia tapped by the Income Tax Department. A bench headed by Justices GS Singhvi will examine the issues raised by Tata, including the questions of right to privacy and right to freedom of speech and expression as envisaged...
09:14 PM, Jul 11, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday dismissed allegations that he was a beneficiary in the 2G scam and termed statements attributed to a former Reliance Industries employee in this regard as "totally false and per se defamatory". In a signed statement, he also said that a conversation between the RIL employee K Ramachandran Raja and corporate lobbyist Niira Radia is "reckless and malicious gossip". The statement comes in...
07:52 PM, Jun 15, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday asked Union Minister P Chidambaram to step down in the wake of media reports that he was an alleged beneficiary in the 2G spectrum scam during UPA-I, even as it charged him with failure as Home Minister in fighting the Naxal menace. "There are media reports of A Raja telling corporate lobbyist Niira Radia that Chidambaram has received a lot of money. Still why is...
07:22 PM, Jun 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from corporate lobbyist Niira Radia on an application seeking vacation of stay on the release and circulation of the book 'Close Encounters with Niira Radia' authored by advocate R K Anand. Justice V K Jain issued notice to Radia, Director of Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, seeking her response within four weeks, on an application filed by the publisher, Har-Anand Publications Pvt...
05:45 PM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: In the clash of the titans at North Block, Pranab Mukherjee has finally had his way - phone tapping for unearthing tax evaders - this despite objections from the Home Ministry and the Cabinet Secretariat. Post the Nira Radia phone taps by the income tax department, the Cabinet Secretariat had suggested the department be removed from the list of agencies that can tap phones. The reasoning being tax...
08:33 AM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: A lawyer, who had approached a Delhi court seeking direction to CBI to make Reliance ADAG chairman Anil Ambani, Tata group chief Ratan Tata, corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and DMK chief M Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal as accused in the 2G scam, on Monday withdrew his petition. Advocate R Krishnamurthy sought to withdraw his application seeking a direction for making the four as accused in the high-profile case...
06:47 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) will continue to enjoy the power of telephone tapping despite a strong recommendation by a Committee of Secretaries against it following a controversy in the wake of the Niira Radia episode. "The CBDT will continue to have the power of phone tapping subject to certain Conditions," an official said. However, it is not immediately clear the conditions the CBDT will have...
11:27 AM, May 22, 2011
New Delhi: Dogged by scams and unable to move ahead on economic reforms in a big way, the UPA government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh steps into the third year of its second term on Sunday, probably hoping to come out of its shackles. For 79-year old Singh, who got to the Prime Minister's seat after Sonia Gandhi refused to assume the office in the summer of 2004, it...
04:51 PM, May 21, 2011
New Delhi: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee is set to meet on Thursday to take a final view on the 2G report. However, battle lines have been drawn and it is clear the UPA contingent will press for a division. The Congress and DMK likely to demand the resignation of PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi alleging he leaked out details of the draft report in order to topple the government. Hectic...
07:09 AM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: Politician-filmmaker Kush Bhargava says his film Monica, which is releasing on Friday, has nothing to do with corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and that it was completed much before she came into the public eye. "This movie was made more than a year ago when her (Niira Radia) name was known to very few people and she was not a public figure. So from my side it is a...
06:57 PM, Mar 24, 2011
