New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday questioned the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on its alleged double speak on the bail applications of the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam including DMK MP Kanimozhi. The apex court asked the CBI that if the investigative agency was sure that evidence will not be tampered with, then why were the accused still being kept in jail. "When you are sure...
04:15 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file a reply within four weeks on a petition filed by Reliance Telecom. The petition from Reliance sought quashing of charges against the company in the 2G spectrum allocation case. The high court also announced that the next hearing in the case will be on January 12, 2012. Reliance Telecom on...
03:42 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Monday said it will examine the Comptroller Auditor General over the Rs 2645 crore versus 1.76 lakh crore figure in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. They also added that the Finance secretary will also be examined in the case. Against the backdrop of dispute over the figure in the 2G spectrum allocation, CAG Vinod Rai on Sunday had offered to appear before...
02:15 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Even as stormy scenes were expected at Monday's meeting of the Publi Accounts Committee (PAC), the meeting on CAG losses has been cancelled after Congress members created a ruckus. The PAC was supposed to question RP Singh, one of the auditors of the CAG's 2G report. However, Congress MPs objected to the presence of CAG Vinod Rai during R P Singh's deposition. NDA members opposed this contention and...
12:42 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, looking into the 2G spectrum allocation case, has summoned a key author of the CAG report on the 2G scam. Auditor RP Singh, who had disagreed with the loss estimate of Rs 1.76 lakh crore, has been summoned to court on Monday. Singh earlier had dissented with the manner in which the 2G allocation was audited. Sources say he will be asked whether...
07:26 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear the bail pleas of five corporate executives involved in the 2G scam. Unitech Wireless' MD Sanjay Chandra, Swan Telecom's Director Vinod Goenka and Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group's executives Hari Nair, Gautam Doshi and Surrendra Pipara will be appearing in court for the hearing. Meanwhile, CBI has instructed its lawyer to oppose their bail plea. On Sunday, the CBI decided to...
07:13 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Nira Radia had been in news in the 2G scam in 2010 when leaked tapes of her conversations appeared in the media. ...
06:27 PM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: In a surprise move, Nira Radia, owner and promoter of Vaishnavi Group which has mandate from Tata group and Mukesh Ambani-led RIL, has announced her exit from the business of communication consultancy. "To give precedence to my personal priorities of family and health, I have decided against renewing any client mandates and to exit the business of communications consultancy," she said in a statement. It is a painful...
04:57 PM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI will oppose the bail of five corporate executives in the Supreme Court which will hear their petitions on Monday, in connection with the 2G scam, days after it did not object to the bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and four others in the trial court. Sources in the investigating agency confirmed that it has instructed the lawyer to oppose the plea of corporate executives -...
10:05 AM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN exposed the letters exchanged between two senior Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) officers, deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and RP Singh, in the CAG office on the issue of the 2G loss figures of a whopping Rs 1,76,000 crores. The Congress is now using it to sharpen its attack against the CAG . RP Singh, the auditor who put his signatures on the CAG report in...
09:47 PM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: More proof of the split in the CAG office has surfaced over the calculation of 2G losses. CNN-IBN has copies of top secret notes exchanged between Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta and DG (Audit) RP Singh which shows that Singh was being coerced into toeing a line that Gupta and CAG Vinod Rai had already worked out. A letter written by Gupta accused Singh of not auditing the 2G...
06:04 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: Reliance Telecom on Monday moved the Delhi High Court challenging the charges framed against it by a CBI court in 2G spectrum case. Challenging the trial court's order charging it with criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery, the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)-led company pleaded that it did not indulge in any wrongdoing and charges framed against it were "wrong". "No incriminating material has been indicated in the charge...
01:22 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Dubai: UAE's telecom giant Etisalat has said that its Indian affiliate Etisalat DB would contest charges filed against it by the authorities relating to the allocation of 2G licence in January 2008. "Etisalat would like to inform you that on October 22nd, 2011, charges were framed against Swan Telecom, in which Etisalat holds 44.7 per cent, and 16 other parties, by the Court of Special Judge (CBI) in relation to...
11:34 AM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: The 2G special court on Monday postponed the hearing of petitioner and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's argument on why P Chidambaram should be named as co-accused in the scam to November 8. Swamy said that the hearing has been postponed as the court officials are away during the festival season. He also said that the Supreme Court's order on the charges against Chidambaram are also expected to...
10:14 AM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: The 2G special court is likely to hear petitioner and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy's argument on why P Chidambaram should be named as co-accused in the scam. The Janata Party President has accused Chidambaram of masterminding the 2G spectrum allocation as the then finance minister in UPA 1, when the allocation took place. The Opposition too tore into Chidambaram's role in the entire scam. BJP leader LK...
07:17 AM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee chairman Murli Manohar Joshi has joined issue with the Prime Minister over the powers of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, he said that the CAG was fully entitled to question the government policy. Joshi also said that there was an impression that the government was going out of its way to stall investigations to protect those charged with corruption....
01:15 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Kolkata: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday night denied that the UPA government was penalising states ruled by non-Congress parties. "Absolutely wrong," Mukherjee said when his reaction was sought to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's comment that the Central government seemed to be "hell-bent on penalising non-Congress governments". "She should have come (at the National Development Council meeting) and made her statement," he told reporters in Kolkata. Jayalalithaa did...
07:38 AM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: After the framing of charges in the 2G scam by a special CBI court, it is most likely that DMK MP Kanimozhi and 13 other accused will have to spend Diwali in jail. The special CBI court framed charges against all of them including former telecom minister A Raja and his aide Siddharth Behura. Both have been charged with criminal breach of trust by public servants. 12 others...
07:23 AM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: Former telecom minister A Raja faces a possible life term in jail after the court of Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge OP Saini framed charges in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case on Saturday. The judge charged Raja and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura with criminal breach of trust under Indian Penal Code Section 409 as they are public servants. The other 15 accused including DMK...
11:20 PM, Oct 22, 2011
New Delhi: As the daughter, Kanimozhi, faced a difficult day in court, DMK chief M Karunanidhi was in Delhi meeting his most powerful political ally, Congress. It was the first time Karunanidhi met Sonia Gandhi after Kanimozhhi's arrest. Karunanidhi and his wife Rajathi Ammal went to Sonia's 10-Janpath residence on Saturday morning and held discussions for about 30 minutes. Later in the evening, Karunanidhi also paid a visit to the...
09:46 PM, Oct 22, 2011
