<p>Official sources said today the move is afoot after agency sleuths transcribed nearly 6,000 telephone calls involving corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, Raja and others during which a purported mention about the allocation of Spectrum was also made.<br /><br />However, no specific dates have been decided for the questioning, the sources said.<br />CBI counsel K K Venugopal made a oral submission last week that the investigation into controversial spectrum allocation was likely to be finished in three months time.<br /><br />Chandolia, who was sent back to his parent department — Indian Economic Services — within days of new Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal taking charge, was quizzed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the issue of the first-come-first-served basis for allocation of spectrum in 2008 after the cut off date for receiving applications was advanced by a week from October 1, 2007 to September 25.<br /><br />Chandolia was personal secretary to Raja at the time of the controversial spectrum allocation in 2008.<br /><br />Raja, who had to resign from the post in the wake of the scam, has been maintaining that he was ready for questioning by the CBI anytime the agency wished so.<br /><br />Raja was yesterday slammed by the Supreme Court for showing "disrespect" to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and for "overruling" his advice to defer the controversial allocation by a few days.<br /><br />A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly took strong exception to the tone and tenor of Raja's letter to the PM wherein words like "unfair, discriminatory, capricious and arbitrary" were used.<br /><br />The 47-year-old Raja was forced to resign as minister on November 14 in the wake of the CAG's report that the rates at which 2G spectrum was allotted resulted in a loss to the exchequer to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>Official sources said today the move is afoot after agency sleuths transcribed nearly 6,000 telephone calls involving corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, Raja and others during which a purported mention about the allocation of Spectrum was also made.<br /><br />However, no specific dates have been decided for the questioning, the sources said.<br />CBI counsel K K Venugopal made a oral submission last week that the investigation into controversial spectrum allocation was likely to be finished in three months time.<br /><br />Chandolia, who was sent back to his parent department — Indian Economic Services — within days of new Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal taking charge, was quizzed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the issue of the first-come-first-served basis for allocation of spectrum in 2008 after the cut off date for receiving applications was advanced by a week from October 1, 2007 to September 25.<br /><br />Chandolia was personal secretary to Raja at the time of the controversial spectrum allocation in 2008.<br /><br />Raja, who had to resign from the post in the wake of the scam, has been maintaining that he was ready for questioning by the CBI anytime the agency wished so.<br /><br />Raja was yesterday slammed by the Supreme Court for showing "disrespect" to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and for "overruling" his advice to defer the controversial allocation by a few days.<br /><br />A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly took strong exception to the tone and tenor of Raja's letter to the PM wherein words like "unfair, discriminatory, capricious and arbitrary" were used.<br /><br />The 47-year-old Raja was forced to resign as minister on November 14 in the wake of the CAG's report that the rates at which 2G spectrum was allotted resulted in a loss to the exchequer to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.<br /><br /><br /></p>