New Delhi: Expressing confidence that the controversy over the Finance Ministry note on the 2G issue will be over soon, Congress on Tuesday dismissed the Opposition's demand for Home Minister P Chidambaram's resignation.
Law Minister Salman Khurshid had a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence in the afternoon but there was no official word on what transpired there.
Top sources in the party indicated the matter would be resolved shortly and the issue is unlikely to snowball into some major crisis unless there is something very adverse from the Supreme Court, which is hearing the matter.
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06:53 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is considering re-examination former telecom minister A Raja's close aide Sadiq Batcha's suicide note to ensure that there was no forgery involved, sources have told CNN-IBN. Doctors of the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are likely to be consulted by the CBI to rule out doubts that Batcha was murdered and didn't commit suicide as the autopsy indicated. Batcha...
04:22 PM, Jul 07, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has details of what will be in the CBI's additional chargesheet in the 2G scam, two weeks hence. The Kalaignar TV link between Shahid Usman Balwa and A Raja has been long alleged and sources say the CBI is going to detail the 214 crore alleged kick back in its supplementary chargesheet on april 25th but with that will come revelations about yet another money trail links ...
08:55 PM, Apr 09, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has details of what will be in the CBI's additional chargesheet in the 2G scam, two weeks hence. The Kalaignar TV link between Shahid Usman Balwa and A Raja has been long alleged and sources say the CBI is going to detail the 214 crore alleged kick back in its supplementary chargesheet on april 25th but with that will come revelations about yet another money trail links...
08:55 PM, Apr 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Government on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will probe the mysterious death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former telecom minister and 2G scam accused A Raja. The court then directed the Central Government to notify investigation into the Sadiq Batcha death case within the next three days. "In the facts and circumstances of the case, we direct...
03:52 PM, Apr 04, 2011
New Delhi: The mysterious death of Sadiq Batcha, considered to be a key aide of former telecom minister and 2G scam accused A Raja, is to be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The CBI told the Supreme Court on Friday that it would take over the investigation into the death of Batcha. The CBI had questioned him in connection with 2G spectrum scam on February 24, 2011....
02:28 PM, Apr 01, 2011
New Delhi: Dr V Dekal has filed his nomination as an independent candidate from Maduravoyal constituency for the Tamil Nadu polls. Dr V Dekal, a forensic surgeon, had conducted the postmortem of A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha. The Tamil Nadu government had earlier rejected the resignation of the doctor who had conducted the postmortem on the body of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Union Telecom Minister A Raja....
07:06 PM, Mar 26, 2011
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has rejected the resignation of the doctor who had conducted the postmortem on the body of Sadik Batcha, a close aide of former Union Telecom Minister A Raja. Batcha, who was under the CBI scanner, was found hanging at his house here on March 16 with his wife claiming that he had committed suicide "unable to cope with the 2G probe." The Directorate of Public...
11:40 AM, Mar 25, 2011
New Delhi: The mysterious death of former telecom minister A Raja's close aide Sadiq Batcha was on Thursday brought to the notice of the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the plea for a CBI probe in the matter. Appearing for NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation, on whose plea a CBI probe was directed into the 2G scam, advocate Prashant Bhushan pleaded before the court that the death is...
05:30 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Chennai: The death of former telecom minister A Raja's key aide Sadiq Batcha was due to asphyxia and his body showed compression of the neck with hanging mark, a doctor who conducted the postmortem said on Thursday. "We cannot say now whether it was suicide or murder. The report will be ready in two weeks," Dr V Dekal of the Government Royapettah Hospital, where the autopsy was conducted, said. "The...
04:47 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Chennai: Investigators are not ruling out a foul play in the death of Sadiq Batcha, who was a close aide of jailed former telecom minister A Raja. Batcha was reportedly found hanging at his Chennai residence on Wednesday with his family members claiming that he committed suicide. One of the doctors at Chennai's Government Hospital who conducted the postmortem on Batcha said that that he died due to asphyxia. Dr...
10:18 AM, Mar 17, 2011
On Talking Point, CNN-IBN discusses if Sadiq Batcha's death will impact the 2G probe. ...
10:09 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said the death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Telecom Minister A Raja, in Chennai will have no bearing on the probe in the 2G spectrum scam as "all the evidences have already been recorded". "There has been no pressure from CBI on Batcha. He was cooperating with the CBI. The development is unexpected but it will not...
05:35 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Guwahati: The BJP on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe into the mysterious death of A Raja's close aide Sadiq Batcha. "A CBI probe is necessary to ascertain the reason of sudden death of one of the chief operators of 2G scam," BJP's national spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters here. "Although we will like to comment after the post mortem report is published, the government should probe into the death", he...
05:19 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Janata Party President and the petitioner in the 2G scam probe Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday demanded investigation into the death of A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha. ...
05:02 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: Janata Party President and the petitioner in the 2G scam probe Subramanian Swamy, on Wednesday, demanded investigation into the death of A Raja's aide Sadiq Batcha. "The most important thing is that suicide and murders are going to be a common part of the 2G investigations because reputations of too many people are involved in the case," Swamy said. Swamy refused to accept that Batcha would have committed...
04:54 PM, Mar 16, 2011
Chennai: A close aide of jailed former telecom minister A Raja, Sadiq Batcha was on Wednesday found dead in his Chennai home. Though the police and his family suspect suicide, foulplay is not being ruled out in the case. Batcha's suicide note was found by the police on Wednesday evening. In the note, Batcha says he was embarrassed by CBI raids and has blamed no one for his action. Batcha...
02:19 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former telecom minister A Raja, hailed from his own hometown of Peramballur. Batcha was the managing director of a real estate company called Green House Promoters. It is this company that the investigators suspect was floated to bring in the bribe money. The biggest trouble for Raja are these documents accessed by CNN-IBN. It shows his wife MA Parameshwari as one of...
01:34 PM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: On Thursday former telecom minister A Raja and Shahid Usman Balwa, one of the youngest billionaire in India, were sent to four days of CBI custody, as together the duo hold the key to unraveling the 2G scam. CNN-IBN has learned that Sadiq Batcha was the link between the two. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the letter Shahid Balwa wrote to the CBI on December 22, 2010...
09:26 PM, Feb 11, 2011
New Delhi: DB Realty Managing Director Shahid Balwa had written a letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on December 22, 2010 in which he admitted that he knew Sadiq Batcha, a close associate of former telecom minister A Raja, since 2006. CNN-IBN has accessed Balwa's letter in which he says that he met Batcha at the Ministry of Environment and Forest in 2006 when Raja was handling the...
04:19 PM, Feb 11, 2011
