This Article is From Mar 16, 2012

Subramanian Swamy's plea on Chidambaram in Supreme Court today

Subramanian Swamy's plea on Chidambaram in Supreme Court today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today take up the petition of Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, who is seeking a CBI probe against Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G scam.

A CBI special court, hearing the 2G scam case, had in February rejected Mr Swamy's plea to order CBI probe into the role of Mr Chidambaram who was the then finance minister.

Mr Swamy then appealed in the Supreme Court against this order.

Mr Swamy wants Mr Chidambaram be made a co-accused in the 2G case for allegedly allowing former Telecom Minister A Raja to gift mobile network licenses and scarce second-generation or 2G spectrum at staggeringly low prices to companies he allegedly favoured.

The trial court felt Mr Swamy was unable to prove criminality on the part of Mr Chidambaram. Mr Swamy maintains that he can prove this criminality only when Chidambaram is forced to undergo a cross-examination.

Mr Swamy, in his petition, said that it was Mr Chidambaram's job as Finance Minister in 2008 to prevent Mr Raja from his alleged spree of nefarious licensing.  He says that Mr Chidambaram was privy to the decisions that Mr Raja took. On matters like the pricing of spectrum, he should have intervened to protect the country's interests, he argues.

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