After cheering the clean-chit by the trial court in the 2G Scam case, Home Minister P Chidambaram is now once again in news as Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today proceeded to Supreme Court challenging the verdict. The trial court, hearing the 2G scam case, on February 04, 2012, had rejected Swamy’s plea which alleged that Chidambaram, then Finance Minister, had a role in deciding the spectrum pricing and allowing telecom companies to off-load shares to foreign firms.
According to Swamy, Chidambaram’s involvement in the scandal is a punishable offence under the Prevention of Corruption Act and other criminal laws and the evidence tabled before the trial court was sufficient. However, trial court had cited that Chidambaram during allocation of 2G Spectrum was involved and responsible for two decision viz., retaining the 2001 spectrum prices and dilution of equity by two companies - which was “not per se criminal”. Furthermore, the trial court had also rejected the private criminal complaint filed by Janata Party chief against Home Minister as the former could not bring evidence to depict “corrupt” and “illegal” motive of latter.
Recently, the finance ministry’s March 25, 2011 2G note which held Chidambaram, responsible for allowing the scam to go on was scrapped by the Congress members of Joint Parliamentary Committee. Manish Tewari, Congress MP argued that basic details in the note were incorrect and being riddled with factual and conceptual inaccuracies. The integrity of the note was questioned by Tewari who also mentioned that it did not contain any reference to Chidambaram. According to him, the arguments by opposition were baseless including targeting Chidambaram and PM for supporting the former. This note had led to uproar in Parliament by opposition demanding Chidambaram’s resignation.
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