CBI moves Delhi high court against acquittals in 2G case
NEWDELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday moved the Delhi high court challenging the acquittal of former Union minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others in connection with the 2G Spectrum case, contending that the judge had “ignored reliable evidences and accepted the uncorroborated evidence of the accused Raja and RK Chandolia as gospel truth”.
The CBI’s plea comes a day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) moved the Delhi HC challenging the acquittal of all the accused in a money laundering case related to the case. The plea was mentioned before the Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal by ASG Tushar Mehta and is likely to be taken up for hearing on March 21.
The plea claimed that the judge completely overlooked material evidence in the case which involves alleged preferential allotment of licences and spectrum to telcos in 2008 when Raja was the telecom minister in the then Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. A subsequent report by the comptroller and auditor general claimed that irregularities in the allotment had caused the central government notional losses of ~1.76 lakh crore.