New Delhi: Update: The Supreme Court has cancelled all 122 2G licences handed out in India. Eighty-five out of the 122 licences are outside the eligibility criteria. The TRAI must go in for a fresh issue of licences, ruled the Supreme Court. In another critical judgment, the Supreme Court referred the matter of whether the role of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram should be probed back to the trial court....
08:02 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to give its judgment on Thursday on the plea seeking probe into the role of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum scam. The apex court is also slated to give a judgment on whether the 2G licences should be cancelled. It will further decide if a Special Investigation Team (SIT) should oversee the investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation...
11:56 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has argued before the Supreme Court that the Nira Radia tapes that were leaked to the media were tampered with. The tapes contained conversations between lobbyist Nira Radia and various industry leaders. The government has also stated that the tapes were not leaked by government agencies. Placing a confidential report in a sealed envelope before a bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi, the government said there...
02:01 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: Top executives of Essar and Loop Telecom accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam failed to appear before a Delhi court on Friday. The five executives - Essar Promoter Director Anshuman Ruia, Essar Vice Chairman Ravi Ruia, Essar Group Director (Strategy & Planning) Vikas Saraf, Loop Telecom's Kiran Khaitan and IP Khaitan - were issued summoned by the special Central Bureau of India (CBI) judge OP Saini in...
12:03 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to CBI and sought its response on the plea of DB Realty MD Vinod Goenka challenging the order on framing of charges against him by the trial court in the 2G scam case. "Issue notice to CBI for March 13," Justice M L Mehta said while admitting the petition of Goenka. Goenka was arrested on April 20, 2011 for his...
12:34 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear final arguments by Loop Telecom and Essar Telecom in the 2G spectrum scam case on Tuesday. Loop and Essar had earlier filed a petition asking if their case was to be heard by a magistrate court or a special CBI court. A special CBI court had accepted CBI's chargesheet against Essar Group and Loop Telecom in the 2G spectrum scam case and...
09:19 AM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: 2G petitioner and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy completed his arguments against Home Minister P Chidambaram in a Delhi court on Saturday. The court has reserved its order on the arguments for February 4. After completing his arguments, Swamy said, "I have presented the minutes of a meeting between A Raja and Chidambaram in which Chidambaram has said that 6.2 mhz spectrum should be given for free with...
11:32 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: 2G petitioner and Janta Party President Subramanian Swamy is likely to argue his case against Home Minister P Chidambaram in a Delhi Court on Saturday. Swamy will argue on the basis of the documentary evidence he submitted in court last week. Swamy has alleged that Chidambaram who was then finance minister had colluded with former telecom Minster A Raja on the 2G spectrum pricing. Swamy submitted copies of...
07:46 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are expected to file a reply in the Supreme Court in the 2G spectrum case on Friday. The report is in response to a charge that both agencies are going soft on accused companies Essar and Loop Telecom and their promoters. Neither the CBI nor the ED has slapped corruption charges on them. ...
09:34 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court granted interim protection against the possible arrest of Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy till January 30 in a case of allegedly writing an 'inflammatory' article against Islam. Swamy had moved the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in an FIR registered against him by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for writing an inflammatory article against Islam in a national daily. In the article...
12:31 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party President and 2G petitioner Subramanian Swamy has moved the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in an FIR registered against him by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police for writing an inflammatory article against Islam in a national daily. In the article 'Analysis: How to wipe out Islamic terror', published in the DNA on July 16 Swamy has called Islamic terrorism as India's number one problem....
11:20 AM, Jan 13, 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: DB Realty on Tuesday lost an appeal against the attachment of Rs 223 crore property over the 2G spectrum scam. The PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) authority said that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was justified in attaching the property. Rs 223 crore is suspected to be the kickbacks by Shahid Balwa-owned Swan telecom to Kalaignar TV. DB Realty had appealed saying the attachment was wrong. ...
01:58 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear the Essar Group's plea in the 2G spectrum scam. Essar had approached the HC last week, challenging the court's jurisdiction to frame charges against it. The company has also sought quashing of charges against it, arguing that the special CBI court is not the right court to hear their case. A special CBI court had accepted CBI's chargesheet against Essar Group and...
08:04 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued notice to the CBI seeking its response by March 13 on the plea of Sanjay Chandra, MD of Unitech Ltd and an accused in 2G case, for quashing of charges framed against him by the trial court. "Issue notice to the CBI," a bench of Justice ML Mehta said. Chandra had moved the high court against the October 22, 2011 order...
11:45 AM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy has submitted copies of what he calls documentary evidence on Home Minister P Chidambaram's involvement in the 2G spectrum scam before a Special Judge in Delhi. The case has now been adjourned to Januray 21. The documents include memos of the Finance Ministry, the CIT and copies of letters exchanged between Chidambaram who was the then Finance Minister, and former telecom minister A...
11:08 AM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Department of Telecommunication (DoT), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on an application filed by Prashant Bhushan in the 2G spectrum scam. Bhushan, in his plea, raised issues suggesting that the CBI was not doing anything against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran. The plea also said that the Law Ministry had tried to interfere in...
03:14 PM, Jan 05, 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: Former telecom minister A Raja on Friday accused the CBI of creating false witness of his former additional personal secretary Aseervatham Achary in the 2G spectrum scam. "Achary is a planted witness and what happened yesterday was one big drama," said Raja's lawyer Sushil Kumar. Kumar referred to Thursday's incident when Achary cried in the court saying someone trying to kill him and has been tailing him. The...
12:31 PM, Dec 23, 2011
