Telecom Minister Arrest

A special 2G court today issued open arrest warrants against Malaysian nationals T Ananda Krishnan and Augustus Ralph Marshall, who are accused in Aircel-Maxis deal case along with former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran.

Dayanidhi Maran, the former telecom minister who is being investigated for corruption, has been granted protection from arrest till September 14 by the Supreme Court.

Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran has hit out at the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI, after three people, including a close aide of the former Union Telecom Minister were arrested by the agency in connection with the telephone exchange case.

Sun TV shares fell nearly 10 per cent in morning trade after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday night arrested three persons, including a close aide of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, in connection with the telephone exchange case.

Warning that he will be harsh with all agencies concerned, the chief minister wanted telecom operators to restore communication facilities by Wednesday.

Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal today said he was "deeply saddened" by the arrest of two girls over their Facebook post questioning the shutdown in the city for Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray's funeral and said the IT Act should not be used to "throttle dissent".

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

Kanimozhi, the Rajya Sabha MP who spent six months in jail, has asked the Delhi High Court to drop the charges that led to her arrest in the telecom scam. Her lawyers say that there is no evidence that she conspired with the others being tried for the swindle, including her party's A Raja, the former telecom minister who is still in jail.

This is the third chargesheet in the case that has ripped through corporate and political India with vicious force, sending luminaries from both worlds to prison. The CBI alleges that in 2008, Loop was used as a front by Essar to collect more licenses and spectrum than was legally allowed. The licenses for Loop - 21 circles for about 1450 crores ...

RK Chandolia, who served as the personal secretary to former telecom minister A Raja, has been granted bail. He was arrested in February for his alleged role in the telecom scam.

Shahid Balwa, the promoter of Swan Telecom, has been granted bail in Delhi today. Of the 14 people arrested for the telecom scam, 11 have now been permitted to go home. Those still in prison include former telecom minister A Raja, and two former bureaucrats who worked closely with him.

Former telecom minister Sukhram has been granted bail by the Delhi High Court. He was arrested earlier this month after being convicted for corruption.

From the time allegations of misappropriation during the bidding for allocation of 2G spectrum surfaced, till Telecom Minister A Raja's ouster, high drama charged both politics in Delhi and Tamil Nadu. So what exactly is the Spectrum Scam that led to all this?

The accused involve 14 people, arrested for their alleged involvement in the 2G telecom scam, so named because of the type of spectrum involved. They include former minister A Raja; bureaucrats who worked closely with him - RK Chandolia and Siddharth Behura; Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi; and executives like Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless and Gautam...

A special 2G court today issued open arrest warrants against Malaysian nationals T Ananda Krishnan and Augustus Ralph Marshall, who are accused in Aircel-Maxis deal case along with former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi Maran.

Dayanidhi Maran, the former telecom minister who is being investigated for corruption, has been granted protection from arrest till September 14 by the Supreme Court.

Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran has hit out at the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI, after three people, including a close aide of the former Union Telecom Minister were arrested by the agency in connection with the telephone exchange case.

Sun TV shares fell nearly 10 per cent in morning trade after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday night arrested three persons, including a close aide of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, in connection with the telephone exchange case.

Warning that he will be harsh with all agencies concerned, the chief minister wanted telecom operators to restore communication facilities by Wednesday.

Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal today said he was "deeply saddened" by the arrest of two girls over their Facebook post questioning the shutdown in the city for Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray's funeral and said the IT Act should not be used to "throttle dissent".

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

Kanimozhi, the Rajya Sabha MP who spent six months in jail, has asked the Delhi High Court to drop the charges that led to her arrest in the telecom scam. Her lawyers say that there is no evidence that she conspired with the others being tried for the swindle, including her party's A Raja, the former telecom minister who is still in jail.

This is the third chargesheet in the case that has ripped through corporate and political India with vicious force, sending luminaries from both worlds to prison. The CBI alleges that in 2008, Loop was used as a front by Essar to collect more licenses and spectrum than was legally allowed. The licenses for Loop - 21 circles for about 1450 crores ...

RK Chandolia, who served as the personal secretary to former telecom minister A Raja, has been granted bail. He was arrested in February for his alleged role in the telecom scam.

Shahid Balwa, the promoter of Swan Telecom, has been granted bail in Delhi today. Of the 14 people arrested for the telecom scam, 11 have now been permitted to go home. Those still in prison include former telecom minister A Raja, and two former bureaucrats who worked closely with him.

Former telecom minister Sukhram has been granted bail by the Delhi High Court. He was arrested earlier this month after being convicted for corruption.

From the time allegations of misappropriation during the bidding for allocation of 2G spectrum surfaced, till Telecom Minister A Raja's ouster, high drama charged both politics in Delhi and Tamil Nadu. So what exactly is the Spectrum Scam that led to all this?

The accused involve 14 people, arrested for their alleged involvement in the 2G telecom scam, so named because of the type of spectrum involved. They include former minister A Raja; bureaucrats who worked closely with him - RK Chandolia and Siddharth Behura; Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi; and executives like Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless and Gautam...