JOIN US An NGO which has filed a PIL in the 2G case, approached the Supreme Court on Friday seeking direction for the court-monitored CBI investigation into the role of then Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the scam.
A day after Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy challenged the trial court’s order before the apex court giving clean chit to the present Union home minister, the NGO The Centre for Public Interest Litigation brought out a series of “facts” and list of “documents” to show the alleged involvement of Chidambaram in the scam.
“The Department of Telecom (DoT) issued 122 Letter of Intents (LOIs) for Universal Access Service (UAS) licences on January 10, 2008; these LOIs were converted into licences only during February 27, 2008 to March 7, 2008; and the spectrum allocation started only from April 22, 2008 and completed on May 6, 2009 (Annexure A6). During this period, Chidambaram had enough time to stop the scam. However, instead, he facilitated the same by silencing the stand of his officers on the issue of spectrum pricing,” the application alleged.