New Delhi: A day after bail was granted to five corporate executives, the Delhi High court is likely to hear the bail plea of DMK MP and 2G scam accused Kanimozhi on Thursday. Kanimozhi has sought an early listing of the matter. Kanimozhi's application cites Wednesday's ruling of the Supreme Court, that granted bail to 5 corporate executives, also accused in the 2g Spectrum scam. Kanimozhi has argued that keeping...
07:54 AM, Nov 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to place before it the report of the probe ordered into the leakage of "classified documents/telephonic intercepts" of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia's conversations with politicians, businessmen and journalists. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay asked Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising to place the report before it by January 31, 2012, when it would take up for final...
08:08 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has stayed its notification to shift the 2G case trial to Tihar Jail. The HC registrar has been instructed to inspect the Patiala House Court to look for alternative venues to hold the trial. The accused in 2G spectrum case had approached the Delhi High Court challenging its administrative decision to shift the trial in the case from its present venue at Patiala House...
02:42 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: Janata Party President and 2G petitioner Subramanian Swamy has said that the bail for five corporate executives in the spectrum scam can be a setback to the case saying that they are capable of influencing witnesses. "These are all very rich people and capable of influencing the witnesses," Swamy said. He said that the Supreme Court must have had some strong reason to grant bail to the five...
11:41 AM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: As the Supreme Court granted bail to all five corporate executives in the 2G spectrum scam, the other accused in the case are now also hopeful of getting bail. Former Telecom Minister A Raja's lawyer Sushil Kumar said, "This is a good order and gives an opening to other accused." He said that if five persons in the case have got bail, the others accused in the case...
11:22 AM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to five corporate executives charged in the 2G spectrum allocation scam on two sureties of Rs 5 lakh each. This is the first set of bail granted in the mutli-crore telecom spectrum scam, which according to a Comptroller and Auditor General report caused a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the state exchequer. The two-judge bench comprising justices GS Singhvi...
10:39 AM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: As the 2G scam trial moves to Tihar jail, on Wednesday the Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the bail pleas of Unitech's Managing Director Sanjay Chandra, Swan Telecom's Director Vinod Goenka as well of Reliance ADAG officials Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara. All five have been lodged in Tihar jail for over six months. The Reliance executives, Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair...
06:26 AM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has issued a suo moto notification that the 2G trial will be held in Tihar jail from now on. Special Judge OP Saini informed the 2G accused of this notification and ordered that the trial should be held in Tihar from Thursday. All the 2G case accused, including former Telecom Minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi have opposed the shifting of trial to...
04:00 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said that the BJP is targeting Home Minister P Chidambaram as he refused to slow down the NIA investigation on Right-wing terror. Slamming the BJP on social networking site Twitter, Digvijaya tweeted, "Chidambaram is being targeted by BJP as he refused to slow down NIA investigation on Sanghi terror. Keep it up PC don't be bullied by them." The BJP-led NDA...
09:37 AM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: It is day one of the winter session of Parliament and it's all set to be a stormy one. The NDA has decided to target Home Minister P Chidambaram on the 2G issue and there are signs of the Left and Right coming together to corner the government on price rise and black money. The Opposition maintains it won't allow the Home Minister to speak until he agrees...
07:20 AM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: A city-based RTI activist has brought out a book that contains various correspondences between ministries and Prime Minister on 2G spectrum allocation. The 400-page book '2G Bomb - RTIs shook North Block', written by advocate Vivek Garg, is a compilation of letters from Members of Parliaments, former and present ministers and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh among others on the 2G issue. The surfacing of a note of the...
12:27 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Kolkata: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Kolkata on Saturday night CBI was doing its duty, assigned as per the law, in the 2G spectrum scam. "BJP is making all sorts of allegations. (And) the CBI is doing their duty entrusted to them as per law," Mukherjee told reporters responding to a question. He made this comment when his attention was drawn to CBI's registering a case against Shyamal...
08:53 AM, Nov 20, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday decided to investigate about discrepancies in 2G spectrum allocation during the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government. Additional allocation of the 2G spectrum during the late BJP leader and the then telecom minister Pramod Mahajan's tenure will be investigated with the CBI registering a second FIR. After the FIR, the CBI conducted raids at Vodafone office in Mumbai and...
11:02 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar convened an all-party meeting ahead of the winter session of Parliament in the national capital on Thursday. The winter session, beginning on November 22, promises to be stormy. The BJP will give notices for discussion on price rise, Telangana, the Lokpal Bill, Rahul Gandhi's recent comments on Uttar Pradesh migrants, the cash-for-votes scam and the 2G scam. "We want adjournment motions on several...
05:17 PM, Nov 17, 2011
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: The chairman of the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC), Murli Manohar Joshi, will on Wednesday answer all the allegations on influencing the CAG report on 2G losses when he speaks at a function where Both Vinod Rai and RP Singh are slated to be present. CNN-IBN has accessed a letter that shows he was in touch with the auditor even before the report was tabled, this on a day...
06:47 AM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: Comptroller Auditor General Vinod Rai on Tuesday appeared before the Joint Parliament Committee (JPC) and defended the 2G scam's Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss figure in the final CAG report. This came after the lead auditor in the case alleged he was forced to accept the loss estimate. But now the CAG finds itself in another controversy involving JPC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi. Some of the questions put...
08:49 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday told a Delhi court that it would provide in two days a copy of a file relating to the 2G spectrum allocation to Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy who alleged the document would prove the "complicity" of then Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the scam. CBI prosecutor AK Singh told Special CBI Judge OP Saini that the agency will give the copy of the...
03:59 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Vinod Rai, is expected to depose before the Joint Parliament Committee (JPC) in the 2G spectrum allocation scam probe on Tuesday. Rai is expected to explain to the parliamentary panel how the government's auditor arrived at a presumptive loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. His former lead auditor RP Singh appeared before the JPC on Monday and reportedly stuck...
06:31 AM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: A plea by former Telecom Minister A Raja that he would not cross-examine prosecution witnesses unless the CBI probe is over in 2G spectrum case, was dismissed on Friday by a Delhi court which began formal trial in the matter. Raja made the plea minutes before Special Judge OP Saini commenced formal trial, beginning it with the recording of first prosecution witness, Reliance Capital Ltd Vice President Anand...
01:10 PM, Nov 11, 2011
