This Article is From Sep 24, 2011

2G probe: CBI records Jaswant Singh's statement

2G probe: CBI records Jaswant Singh's statement
New Delhi: Former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh has been examined by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the 2G spectrum case.

Mr Singh's statement has been recorded as part of a preliminary 2G report. He was the Finance Minister in the NDA regime and was heading the group of ministers on issue of limited mobility and spectrum allocation.

The investigating agency had told the Supreme Court earlier this month that there had been violation of allocation norms during the BJP regime.

The CBI has, in the past, also examined other former Telecom Ministers like Arun Shourie and Dayanidhi Maran.

The telecom scam centres around why former Telecom Minister A Raja chose to award mobile network licenses and frequency in 2008 at rates decided in 2001.  He has also been questioned about why he did not hold an auction for spectrum instead of bundling it into licenses that were sold for a pittance of about 1600 crores each.

The UPA government has said that when it came to power in 2004, it followed the telecom policies that were introduced by the BJP-led NDA regime in the years before that.
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