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Editor: NAGARAJA.M.R… VOL.7 issue.30…… .24/07/2013
Judgement Fixing in Indian Courts of Law /
Justice
A B C D of
Democracy – A Lesson for all people’s representatives
HOW MPs ,MLAs , Ministers - PEOPLE’S REPRESENTATIVES MUST FUNCTION
People are the kings , self rulers in a democracy . Peoples representatives must just represent the wishes , aspirations of people. When people in Jaitapur , Maharashtra state ofIndia are totally against a nuke plant in their area and they don’t want it , still the authorities are forcing this project over their head.
Since 63 years of independence , In India the learned IAS babus & Netas are forcing their agendas , SEZs , Projects over the people for their own selfish gains , against the wishes of people. This is not DEMOCRACY.
People are the kings , self rulers in a democracy . Peoples representatives must just represent the wishes , aspirations of people. When people in Jaitapur , Maharashtra state ofIndia are totally against a nuke plant in their area and they don’t want it , still the authorities are forcing this project over their head.
Since 63 years of independence , In India the learned IAS babus & Netas are forcing their agendas , SEZs , Projects over the people for their own selfish gains , against the wishes of people. This is not DEMOCRACY.
In india, indirect democracy is the form of governance. In this
form, people's representatives are bound to raise the questions , issues
concerning their constituents on their behalf , on the floor of the house.
However the sad part in india even
after 63 years of democracy , is the lobbying is at it's
peak. The lobbying is a gentleman's white collared crook's way of forming
favour seeker's group , creating a corpus to pay lumpsum bribe &
influencing decision making.
The people's representatives are bound to represent their people first , then their party & party think tanks. India has come to this sorry state of affairs , widespread corruption , huge black economy & rampant poverty, all due to inefficient legislations & enforcements.
These think tanks & IAS lobby, consider themselves as most super brains on earth & gives out suggestions . the present state of affairs is a barometer of their brilliance. These think tanks & IAS lobby are the hand maidens of lobbyists / bribers.
Now consider the following example :
Mr.raj gandhi is a member of parliament from mandya constituency in karnataka state. He is a MBA graduate & member of ruling Indian progressive party. The multinational giant M/S GREY HOUND CORPORATION wants to enter into paper manufacturing business in india. It's sight falls on the public sector paper giant mandya national paper mills (MNPM) in mandya district of karnataka. The MNC effectively lobbies with the government. The ruling party think tank & the cabinet advisory group recommends to the government to make strategic
disinvestment in the PSU M/S MNPM. They bring out graph with full power point presentation stating that it is good for the company as well as the government. The lobbyists follows it up with media reports on the positive aspect of strategic disinvestment. A favourable impression is created in the minds of literate public. The cabinet
committee okays it.
The " strategic dis investment issue " comes before the parliament for legislation / approval. The ruling party issues a party whip to it's members to vote in favour of dis investment. However M.P mr.raj gandhi who is an MBA in his own wisdom also favours the dis investment. However ,most importantly the constituents – people in mandya parliamentary constituency through protest marches , mass post card campaigns lakhs in numbers expresses their disagreement with the dis investment & urges their MP mr.gandhi to vote against the disinvestment legislation.
On the D-day in parliament , mr. Raj gandhi as per his party whip & his own wisdom votes in favour of strategic disinvestment legislation, much against the wishes of his people , constituents & mis represents them in parliament. the democracy has failed here. in This way democracy is being derailed since 62 years in india.
In democracy, party whip , MP or MLA's own wisdom / brilliance, think tank & IAS lobby recommendations are all secondary , the constituent's of his constituency , people's wishes aspirations are of primary importance & supreme. What people need is a honest
representative, who simply delivers the people's aspirations on the floor of the house back & forth , without superimposing it with his own ideas & party ideas. For true democracy , the people's representatives must be true postmans.
Towards this end , the people must be educated about their democratic rights & responsibilities. This is an appeal to the honest few in the parliament & state legislatures to weed out their corrupt colleagues , lobbyists, to uphold the dignity of the house & to install democracy in it's true form.
Editorial : Honor of Indian Parliament for sale by few members
It is a shame that years ago four members of parliament were caught
red
handed on charges of human trafficking that too misusing their
official passports. We have seen in the past various crimes by M.Ps
- questions for money , kickbacks , Release of money under MPLAD Scheme , etc. In the past we have seen vulgar behaviour of some members in the house , state legislature , remember vulgar acts of Mr.Bora Babu Singh & vulgar acts by some MLAs against Ms.Jayalalitha .Now , it is “Cash for Vote” in trust vote & nuclear cap bill . We ordinary citizens have utmost respect for all constitutional bodies. Disrespect , contempt to constitutional bodies is being shown by some of the constitutional functionaries themselves , they are also making contempt of citizens of India.
handed on charges of human trafficking that too misusing their
official passports. We have seen in the past various crimes by M.Ps
- questions for money , kickbacks , Release of money under MPLAD Scheme , etc. In the past we have seen vulgar behaviour of some members in the house , state legislature , remember vulgar acts of Mr.Bora Babu Singh & vulgar acts by some MLAs against Ms.Jayalalitha .Now , it is “Cash for Vote” in trust vote & nuclear cap bill . We ordinary citizens have utmost respect for all constitutional bodies. Disrespect , contempt to constitutional bodies is being shown by some of the constitutional functionaries themselves , they are also making contempt of citizens of India.
this present sorry state
of affairs is due to the caste consciousness of the electorate. The
public instead of seeing the honesty , integrity of electoral
candidates looks just at his caste , in this trend they elect persons
who belongs to their caste even though he is dishonest , untrustworthy
& a criminal . Now , the number of criminals , density of criminals
( who are masterminds in evading conviction ) is more in elected
houses of people's representatives - parliament , state assemblies ,
panchayaths , corporations , etc than in the jails , outside public
society . HRW is ready to prove this subject to conditions , in larger
public interest. Our people's representatives must learn classroom
discipline , punctuality of attendance , home work , from little kids
of primary school.
We have won the independence by the hard way , by the innumerable
sacrifices made by great martyrs like mahatma Gandhi , Nehru , bhagath
singh , etc. The criminals who have occupied constitutional positions
don't have any right to squander that hard won independence of
Indians. The disgrace , contempt to august house of people's
representatives is brought upon itself by the corrupt people's
representatives themselves.
We at HRW , have highest regards for the institution of parliament ,
this is an appeal to the honest few in the parliament to bring to book
their corrupt colleagues & to uphold the dignity of the house . JAI
HIND. VANDE MATARAM.
of affairs is due to the caste consciousness of the electorate. The
public instead of seeing the honesty , integrity of electoral
candidates looks just at his caste , in this trend they elect persons
who belongs to their caste even though he is dishonest , untrustworthy
& a criminal . Now , the number of criminals , density of criminals
( who are masterminds in evading conviction ) is more in elected
houses of people's representatives - parliament , state assemblies ,
panchayaths , corporations , etc than in the jails , outside public
society . HRW is ready to prove this subject to conditions , in larger
public interest. Our people's representatives must learn classroom
discipline , punctuality of attendance , home work , from little kids
of primary school.
We have won the independence by the hard way , by the innumerable
sacrifices made by great martyrs like mahatma Gandhi , Nehru , bhagath
singh , etc. The criminals who have occupied constitutional positions
don't have any right to squander that hard won independence of
Indians. The disgrace , contempt to august house of people's
representatives is brought upon itself by the corrupt people's
representatives themselves.
We at HRW , have highest regards for the institution of parliament ,
this is an appeal to the honest few in the parliament to bring to book
their corrupt colleagues & to uphold the dignity of the house . JAI
HIND. VANDE MATARAM.
Your's sincerely,
NAGARAJ.M.R.
QUESTIONS FOR MONEY - PARLIAMENTARY ACTS / LEGISLATIONS FOR ???? - improper functioning of
democracy in india
The vohra committee report has proved the criminalisation of politics
in india. There are many number of criminals in the parliament & state
legislatures. Some of those criminals are cabinet ministers as well as
members of vital parliamentary committees. Thereby, they are in a
position to manipulate , enact laws favouring , benefitting the
criminals their cronies.
Just see how the GOI gave export incentive of Rs.1800 crore to
reliance petroleum although it didn't even export a barrel. Reliance
infocom & tata teleservices were CDMA mobile service providers & have
paid license fee of few crores only equal to landline fees without any
competitive bidding . They were supposed to provide mobile service to
operate like fixed phones within a radius of 40k.m. however they were
providing service like mobile service from one state to another like
GSM mobile service providers. By this act of RIC & TTSL , the GSM
providers who have paid thousands of license fee in competitive
bidding were economically hurt , the dispute went to court. The court
was on the verge of pronouncing it's verdict awarding damages worth
Rs.18000 crore to GSM players & Rs. 3000 crore of license fees with
penalty to GOI. The government announced a unified telecom license
regime with retrospective effect. Thereby, the GOI lost thousands of
crores of rupees & the share holders of GSM players lost thousands of
crores. Onceagain the RIC was charged by PSU bsnl THAT RELIANCE IS
RE-ROUTING INTERNATIONAL CALLS AS LOCAL CALLS & SWINDLING THE GOI.
This time too, GOI bailed it out. during the dispute between ambani
brothers the younger ambani mr. Anil ambani director of reliance
himself has stated that for the favours received from the GOI , the
company gifted some shares to then IT &
COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER mr.Pramod mahajan. Various indian &
multinational companies are lootingindian exchequer to the tune of
thousands of crores of rupees , through lobbying / bribing.
In india, indirect democracy is the form of governance. In this
form,
people's representatives are bound to raise the questions , issues
concerning their constituents on their behalf , on the floor of the
house. However the sad part in india even after 58 years of democracy
, is the lobbying is at it's peak. The lobbying is a gentleman's white
collared crook's way of forming favour seeker's group , creating a
corpus to pay lumpsum bribe & influencing decision making. The
people's representatives are bound to represent their people first ,
then their party & party think tanks. India has come to this sorry
state of affairs , widespread corruption , huge black economy &
rampant poverty, all due to inefficient legislations & enforcements.
These think tanks & IAS lobby, consider themselves as most super
brains on earth & gives out suggestions . the present state of affairs
is a barometer of their brilliance. These think tanks & IAS lobby are
the hand maidens of lobbyists / bribers.
people's representatives are bound to raise the questions , issues
concerning their constituents on their behalf , on the floor of the
house. However the sad part in india even after 58 years of democracy
, is the lobbying is at it's peak. The lobbying is a gentleman's white
collared crook's way of forming favour seeker's group , creating a
corpus to pay lumpsum bribe & influencing decision making. The
people's representatives are bound to represent their people first ,
then their party & party think tanks. India has come to this sorry
state of affairs , widespread corruption , huge black economy &
rampant poverty, all due to inefficient legislations & enforcements.
These think tanks & IAS lobby, consider themselves as most super
brains on earth & gives out suggestions . the present state of affairs
is a barometer of their brilliance. These think tanks & IAS lobby are
the hand maidens of lobbyists / bribers.
When everybody else does the mistake , wrong doing , indulges
in corruption , judiciary alone must be pure like virgin to punish
& guide the wrong doers. Now , the apex court of the land & the
highest judicial officer of the land , the conscience keeper , protector
of rights , Constitutional guardian of the land – The Honourable Chief Justice of India himself Has been found
guilty . SHAME SHAME.
Nowadays , we are seeing criminalization of politics , judiciary & police. The rowdy elements have become MLAs & MPs & frequestly indulge in fisticuffs , vulgar abuses in the precincts of the house itself . These rowdy elements take money for asking questions in the parliament , to vote for bills & for a price pass legislations favouring lobbies of rich crooks. The police frame , torture innocents & let out rich crooks for a price . For a price police destroy evidences , records and create fake records , evidences. Finally there are judges who issue arrest warrants , give bail , give acquittal & pass favourable judgements ALL FOR A PRICE . SHAME SHAME . These corrupt judges , police , MPs , MLAs each take salary & perks far exceeding lakhs per annum , but serve rich crooks instead of Indian Public. These corrupt are parasites & deadlier , state enemies than naxalites , terrorists. Democracy in our country , our hard won national independence is endangered by these parasites , corrupt judges , police & people’s representatives only. These parasites themselves are responsible for origin & growth of naxalism / terrorism in india .
Nowadays , we are seeing criminalization of politics , judiciary & police. The rowdy elements have become MLAs & MPs & frequestly indulge in fisticuffs , vulgar abuses in the precincts of the house itself . These rowdy elements take money for asking questions in the parliament , to vote for bills & for a price pass legislations favouring lobbies of rich crooks. The police frame , torture innocents & let out rich crooks for a price . For a price police destroy evidences , records and create fake records , evidences. Finally there are judges who issue arrest warrants , give bail , give acquittal & pass favourable judgements ALL FOR A PRICE . SHAME SHAME . These corrupt judges , police , MPs , MLAs each take salary & perks far exceeding lakhs per annum , but serve rich crooks instead of Indian Public. These corrupt are parasites & deadlier , state enemies than naxalites , terrorists. Democracy in our country , our hard won national independence is endangered by these parasites , corrupt judges , police & people’s representatives only. These parasites themselves are responsible for origin & growth of naxalism / terrorism in india .
These corrupt parasites will feel , understand the pain
only when they also suffer in the same manner. Let us pray to almighty – In whose Court of justice MATCH FIXING is not
there & every body is equal , let us pray to that god to give these corrupt
parasites ghastly deaths nothing less nothing more.
A day after
being caught on camera watching a porn clip in the Karnataka Assembly, three
BJP ministers resigned today after an embarrassed party leadership cracked the
whip.
A red-faced BJP
swiftly went into a damage control mode asking Cooperation Minister Laxman
Savadi and Women and Child Development Minister C C Patil to quit while
Minister for Ports, Science and Technology Krishna Palemar was axed for
allegedly providing the blue film to them.
The three
ministers were also barred by Speaker K G Bopaiah from attending proceedings of
the Assembly till a House inquiry committee submits report on March 12.
In his ruling,
Bopaiah asked the three to give an explanation by February 13 and their reply
would be placed before the proposed six-member inquiry committee, comprising
two members each from BJP, Congress and JDS.
Till then, the
three are barred from attending the Assembly, Bopaiah said in his order as the
unsavoury episode rocked the House and provided a fodder to the opposition to
take on the ruling party.
Savadi and
Patil were caught on camera yesterday while they were viewing the porn video
footage inside the state assembly during the proceedings, an incident that
battered the image of the Sadananda Gowda Government and BJP and triggering
widespread condemnation across the state.
"We don't
want the party and the government to face further embarrassment. All of us have
decided to resign. We have handed over our resignation letters to Chief
Minister with a request to accept it," Savadi, Patil and Palemar told
reporters. Savadi claimed they have done no wrong.
The direction
to the ministers to quit came after the BJP summoned the trio and told them to
put in their papers at a meeting attended by top leaders including Gowda, state
BJP President KS Eswarappa and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa.
The meeting
took place close on the heels of BJP President Nitin Gadkari speaking to Gowda
and Eswarappa and directing them to initiate action against the three
ministers, party sources said.
Losing no time
after the ministers fell in line, Chief Minister DV Sadananda forwarded the
resignations to Governor HR Bhardwaj who accepted them immediately but that did
not satisfy the opposition which created a big ruckus in the assembly demanding
the disqualification of the three as MLAs.
BJP Government,
already hit by a series of corruption charges, faced acute embarrassment as the
fresh controversy exploded in its face after regional TV channels, which
recorded the act of the ministers flipping through the porn clippings on their
mobile phones, aired the footage yesterday.
Sadananda Gowda
said the three ministers had sought a probe into the issue as they maintain
that they only watched a clipping that was sent to their mobile and were
confident of proving their innocence.
After meeting
the party leaders, the three described themselves as "loyal soldiers of
the party" and said, "We do not want to further embarrass the
government and the party... But we have not committed any crime".
The exit of the
ministers did not satisfy an agressive opposition which also demanded
registering criminal cases against them apart from summary disqualification.
Speaker's
announcement of a committee to probe the issue also failed to pacify the
agitated opposition members with the Congress announcing boycott of the panel.
"Why
should there be a committee. They have admitted to watching the clips. Please
disqualify them," Opposition Congress leader Siddaramaiah insisted and
staged dharna in the company of JDS members in the House.
The incident
led to curtailing of the assembly session by two days, as Bopaiah adjourned it
sine die.
"Yes the
incident has embarrassed the party", Eswarappa admitted even as Gowda
maintained that the three ministers resigned on their "own".
Karnataka
witnessed protests at several places by Congress activists who condmened the
incident.
With the exit
of three more ministers, the list of BJP Ministers in the state who have made
dishonourable exit in the last four years has risen to seven.
The present row
has brought down the strength of the Gowda ministry to 24, leaving 10
ministerial vacancies.
The central
leadership showed the door to BS Yeddyurappa based on the Lokayukta report on
illegal mining.
Former minister
SN Krishnaiah Setty had to resign from the Yeddyurappa ministry after he faced
charges of land scam, followed by Katta Subramanya Naidu on similar allegations
while rape charges forced H Halappa to quit as minister.
Two Karnataka ministers caught watching
porn film in assembly
BANGALORE: Two
BJP ministers in Karnataka - Lakshman Savdi and C C Patil - were allegedly
caught watching porn film clips on the former's mobile phone on the floor the
state legislative assembly on Tuesday. While Savdi holds the cooperatives'
portfolio, Patil is the minister for women and child development.
The ministers
were caught in the act even as the house was in the middle of a heated debate
on the recent hoisting of the Pakistani flag at Sindagi in Bijapur district.
Close-up shots of the ministers watching blue films were beamed on television
channels in the evening and sparked a furore. The television visuals showed
both the ministers sitting next to each other, gazing into Savdi's handset and
bantering on. This is for the first time that the Karnataka assembly is rocked
by such a scandal.
Soon after the
news broke, Opposition leader Siddaramaiah and JD(S) leader YSV Datta demanded
resignation of the ministers. They said the ministers were elected by the
people and such an act is nothing short of an insult to the people.
"Disgraceful. This should not have happened," said D H
Shankaramurthy, chairman of the legislative council.
The issue
expected to generate lot of heat since the legislature will be in session up to
Friday. Speaker K G Bopaiah and both the ministers could not be reached
immediately for comments.
JANLOKPAL
BILL - Need for Accountability of
VVIPS
While drafting
our constitution of india , drafting members - freedom fighters
themselves assumed that in future also the persons who will occupy
constituional positions will be sincere & of high impeccable
integrity. However they were proved wrong. Late Prime Minister of Great
Britain Mr.Winston Churchill has been proved right.
"Power will
go to the hands of rascals,rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be
of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts.
They will fight among themselves for power and will be lost in political
squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be taxed." Sir
Winston made this statement in the House of Commons just before the
independence of India & Pakistan.
Nowadays
, criminals have entered into public service , working as police ,
magistrates , etc. Criminals have become MPs , MLAs and are also working as
Cabinet Ministers . Criminals have become judges , some of them
have become supreme court judges.
End result
CRIMINALS POLICING THE OTHER CRIMINALS , CRIMINALS
DRAFTING LAWS , CRIMINALS JUDGING OTHERS. Even there are
cases of irregularities , illegaliteies by Prime Minister of
India and Irregularities , illegalities committed by supreme
court of india judges . Example : JMM MPs bribery case , CWG Scam , 2G
Scam , Bofors Scandal , etc and Bhopal Gas Tragedy Judgement
fixing by then chief justice of india by way of alteration of
charges , financial irregularities , illegal dealings by supreme court
judges , etc.
In this
backdrop , continuing with legal immunity to Prime minister of india ,
supreme court judges or any constitutional persons is nothing but blanket
clearance to those VVIPs to committ more crimes , more anti-national acts
wthout the fear of Law or Legal Prosecution. THIS LEGAL
IMMUNITY IS & WILL BE AGAINST THE BASIC
CONSTITUTIONAL LETTER & SPIRIT OF EQUALITY
& EQUITABLE JUSTICE.
Are not
some of the cabinet minsiters , so called constitutional experts ,
great advocates aware of this fundamental violation of constitution
of india. Ofcourse , these advocates rightly fight for , take the cases
of poor , commonman , they usually take cases of MNCs , Big time criminals ,
etc. Let these constitutional experts show us a single
government hospital without corruption . Let the light of our
constitution shine on our learned friends in the
parliament belonging to all political parties. Corruption is there in
every political party , in the same way there are very few honest persons
in all political parties , judiciary , police & public service. Why
you are afraid of accountability to people , while you are enjoying
5-star luxurious lifestyles at tax payer’s expense ?
An Appeal to Honourable United Nations
Human Rights High Commissioner & Honourable
International Court of Justice
Dear Madam / Sir ,
SUBJECT : HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA & SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
I have individually suffered numerous human rights violations , injustices by public servants working for government of India when I raised my voice seeking justice for my fellow countrymen . for the society. These public servants are involved in crimes like aiding & abetting terrorism , underworld , manslaughter , etc. when I appealed to the supreme court of India seeking justice , they have turned their blind eye. As a result more injustices are being committed till date. Even the police are not registering the complaint against these guilty public servants. Police & Supreme Court Judges in league with CRIMINALS , ANTI NATIONALS , TERORRISTS ?
In India , some Parliamentarians take money for even raising Questions in parliament , favorable laws / government rules are enacted to favor rich criminals (refer 2G & Nira Radia scam). Police for a price manipulate evidence , prematurely close case , fix innocent & mete out 3rd degree torture , murder in the name of encounter . Public prosecutor can change the way of argument , etc for a price. Even judges in India give favorable judicial orders for money , SEX , post retirement benefits , etc. please refer details at following web pages :
http://sites.google.com/site/eclarionofdalit/court-judgements-fixed ,
http://sites.google.com/site/eclarionofdalit/3rd-degree-torture-by-indian-police ,
http://sites.google.com/site/eclarionofdalit/court-judgements-for-a-price
I have not got justice till date , instead I have suffered physical assaults , murder attempts on me , my newspaper was illegally clamped down , my job opportunities were illegally snatched away (cutting off the source of livelihood). I have been threatened by police that I & my family members will be fixed up in criminal cases (false implication) & will be behind the bars for rest of our life. I have been refused proper medical care in government hospitals , so that I will die sooner . All these Injustices are meted out at the hands of criminal nexus of CRIMINAL – POLICE– JUDGE - BUREAUCRAT – MP / MLA .
Democracy is the best form of governance. My motherland India is one of the greatest country. However Criminals have entered into halls of parliament , criminals have become judges , criminals have become police , almost total criminalization of public service has taken place. These criminals are framing laws for the masses much against the democratic aspirations of the masses. Criminal judges are relying on these laws made by criminals & sending innocents to gallows . Criminal Police are making deals with criminals & arresting , torturing innocents.
Still very few HONEST people are left in public service - Parliament , Judiciary & Police , However they are keeping mum. My struggle is not against the government of India or it’s constitutional bodies rather it is against the corrupt people who are in those bodies . I do have whole hearted respects for the government of India & it’s constitutional bodies , But I despise the corrupt people over there in those institutions. Our system is good , many of the people working there are not good. It is struggle against those corrupt people , to save our democracy , to save our freedom.
Hereby , I do request your honourableselves Honourable United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner and Honourable International Court Of Justice , to order the Honourable Supreme Court of India , Government of India to do it’s constitutional duties properly , to safeguard the human rights of all and to provide justice in the matter. Thanking You.
Date : 15th July 2011 ……………………………..Your’s Sincerely ,
Place : Mysore , India………………………………Nagaraj . M . R .
Threats to Human Rights Activist / RTI Applicant - An Appeal to CIC , KIC & Chief Justice of India
shame shame to VVIPs , Public servants who are hiding truths , who are covering up crimes , by denying RTI REQUESTS to us.
In India , many Corrupt public servants don’t honour RTI requests with one pretext or the other. They are aware that the information if given will become evidences of their criminals acts. They go to any length to hide truth , to hide information. They murder RTI Applicants , fix them in cases , etc. Nowadays murders of RTI Applicants , Human Rights Activists are frequent.
I have myself suffered threats , attempts to murder me , closure of my news paper , loss of job , etc at the hands of criminal nexus. Example : I have requested Mysore district , district magistrate for information under RTI regarding illegalities worth crores of rupees , instead of taking action against the culprits , Preventing further irregularities , illegalities , criminals he repeatedly abused me & threatened me. The illegalities continued , a lake was partially closed illegally allotted to an industrialist alleged to be very close to the state Industries minister. In the same way I have been threatened by police often , I have even received threatening phone calls from a person claiming himself to be a UP High Court Judge.
To my previous appeals to CIC & KIC , they were mum , as it concerns a Commoner it won’t give them any image build up , publicity or TRP ratings instead it will raise the heckles of powers that be marring the future prospects , lucrative postings , etc of CIC & KIC members .
Bureaucrats are of secretive nature , a career bureaucrat if appointed to information commission , he works against the principle of Transparency & RTI . If further the career bureaucrat happens to be utterly corrupt & given posting in Information commission as a favor by his corrupt colleagues in the government , RTI & RTI Applicant will suffer , die. Example : Karnataka state information commissioner Mr. H.N Krishna.
Ofcourse , there are few honest people in public service including in information commissions . We respect those honest few & request their support in apprehending their corrupt colleagues . If anything untoward happens to me or to my dependents , together with the criminals all the members of CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION & KARNATAKA STATEINFORMATION COMMISSION will be responsible for it. Subject to conditions , hereby I do offer my services to CIC , KIC & GOI in apprehending , legally prosecuting criminals , corrupt public servants , etc.
Hereby , I do request the CIC & KIC to order the concerned officials to give information in following cases & RTI Requests mentioned below.
RTI Request made to Dy Chairman , Rajyasabha , New Delhi
SA/UG/11/14290f12f
RTI Request made to Union Home Minister , GOI , New Delhi
SA/UG/11/14291iwho
RTI Request made to Chief Justice of India , New Delhi
SA/UG/11/14287gink
RTI Request made to President of India , New Delhi
SA/UG/11/14288iv66
RTI Request made to Loksabha Speaker , New Delhi
SA/UG/11/142892yj9
Our previous RTI request to CJI , union home secretary of GOI, President of India , DG & IGP of GOK and others were not honored. The information I sought were answers to the following questions mentioned in the below mentioned websites . the questions concerned the past , present continuing injustices meted out to millions of Indian citizens , due to wrong / illegal work practices of Indian judges , police & public servants . The information we sought would expose the traitors , anti-nationals , criminals in public service. The information we are seeking are no defense secrets , no national secrets. The truthful information exposes the anti-nationals , traitors in the public service & strengthens our national security , national unity & integrity.
Hereby , I do request the honorable supreme court of India to consider this as a PIL for : "writ of Mandamus" and to issue instructions to the concerned public servants in the following cases to perform their duties & to answer the questions.
Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.
Your’s sincerely ,
Nagaraja M R .
Your’s sincerely ,
Nagaraja M R .
2G
scam: Supreme Court details how Raja ignored all to help cronies
The SC order
said quite clearly that then telecom minister A Raja "wanted to favour some
companies at the cost of the public exchequer" and lists seven steps he
took to ensure this happened. Here are the steps as the SC saw them:
1. After taking over as telecom minister, Raja directed that all applications received for UAS licences should be kept pending till receipt of the Trai's recommendations
2. The recommendations made by Trai on August 28, 2007, were not placed before the full Telecom Commission which would have included the finance secretary. The notice of the meeting of the Telecom Commission was not given to any of the non-permanent members though Trai's recommendations for allocation of 2G spectrum had serious financial implications and it was therefore necessary for DoT to take the finance ministry's opinion under the Government of India (Transaction of Business) Rules, 1961.
3. The DoT officers who attended the Telecom Commission meeting held on October 10, 2007, had no choice but to approve Trai's recommendations, since they would otherwise have "incurred" Raja's "wrath".
4. Since Cabinet had approved recommendations made by the Group of Ministers, the DoT had to discuss the issue of spectrum pricing with the finance ministry. But, since Raja knew that the finance secretary had objected to the allocation of 2G spectrum at rates fixed in 2001, he did not consult the finance minister or other officials.
5. Raja brushed aside the law minister's suggestion that the matter should be placed before the empowered group of ministers. Also, within hours of the receipt of the suggestion made by the PM in his letter dated November 2, 2007, that keeping in view the inadequacy of spectrum, transparency and fairness should be maintained in allocation of the spectrum, Raja rejected it saying that it would be unfair, discriminatory, arbitrary and capricious to auction spectrum to new applicants because it would not give them a level-playing field. He also introduced a cut-off date of September 25, 2007, for considering applications though only the previous day a DoT press release had said October 1, 2007, would be the last date. This arbitrary action of Raja "though appears to be innocuous was actually intended to benefit some of the real estate firms who did not have any experience in dealing with telecom services and who had made applications only on 24.9.2007, i.e. one day before the cut-off date fixed by the C&IT minister on his own".
6. The cut-off date of September 25, 2007, decided by Raja on November 2, 2007, was not made public till January 10, 2008, and the first-come-first-served principle followed since 2003 was changed by him at the last moment through a press release dated January 10, 2008. "This enabled some of the applicants, who had access either to the minister or DoT officers, get bank drafts prepared towards performance guarantee of about Rs 1,600 crore".
7. "The manner in which the exercise for grant of LoIs to the applicants was conducted on 10.1.2008 leaves no room for doubt that everything was stage managed to favour those who were able to know in advance change in the implementation of the first-come-first-served polcy." As a result, some firms which had submitted applications in 2004 or 2006 were pushed down in the priority and those who had applied between August and September 2007 succeeded.
1. After taking over as telecom minister, Raja directed that all applications received for UAS licences should be kept pending till receipt of the Trai's recommendations
2. The recommendations made by Trai on August 28, 2007, were not placed before the full Telecom Commission which would have included the finance secretary. The notice of the meeting of the Telecom Commission was not given to any of the non-permanent members though Trai's recommendations for allocation of 2G spectrum had serious financial implications and it was therefore necessary for DoT to take the finance ministry's opinion under the Government of India (Transaction of Business) Rules, 1961.
3. The DoT officers who attended the Telecom Commission meeting held on October 10, 2007, had no choice but to approve Trai's recommendations, since they would otherwise have "incurred" Raja's "wrath".
4. Since Cabinet had approved recommendations made by the Group of Ministers, the DoT had to discuss the issue of spectrum pricing with the finance ministry. But, since Raja knew that the finance secretary had objected to the allocation of 2G spectrum at rates fixed in 2001, he did not consult the finance minister or other officials.
5. Raja brushed aside the law minister's suggestion that the matter should be placed before the empowered group of ministers. Also, within hours of the receipt of the suggestion made by the PM in his letter dated November 2, 2007, that keeping in view the inadequacy of spectrum, transparency and fairness should be maintained in allocation of the spectrum, Raja rejected it saying that it would be unfair, discriminatory, arbitrary and capricious to auction spectrum to new applicants because it would not give them a level-playing field. He also introduced a cut-off date of September 25, 2007, for considering applications though only the previous day a DoT press release had said October 1, 2007, would be the last date. This arbitrary action of Raja "though appears to be innocuous was actually intended to benefit some of the real estate firms who did not have any experience in dealing with telecom services and who had made applications only on 24.9.2007, i.e. one day before the cut-off date fixed by the C&IT minister on his own".
6. The cut-off date of September 25, 2007, decided by Raja on November 2, 2007, was not made public till January 10, 2008, and the first-come-first-served principle followed since 2003 was changed by him at the last moment through a press release dated January 10, 2008. "This enabled some of the applicants, who had access either to the minister or DoT officers, get bank drafts prepared towards performance guarantee of about Rs 1,600 crore".
7. "The manner in which the exercise for grant of LoIs to the applicants was conducted on 10.1.2008 leaves no room for doubt that everything was stage managed to favour those who were able to know in advance change in the implementation of the first-come-first-served polcy." As a result, some firms which had submitted applications in 2004 or 2006 were pushed down in the priority and those who had applied between August and September 2007 succeeded.
Legislate
LOKPAL Bill
With whole
hearted respects to the parliament & all constitutional bodies , hereby we
are appealing to the honest few in public service , honest few in parliament ,
honest few in judiciary & honest few in police , to legally prosecute their
corrupt colleagues , to legislate “ LOKPAL BILL” with full powers to enforce accountability of
all public servants , MPs , MLAs , Police , etc to the citizens of india.
Citizens of india
are supreme in democratic republic of india. parliament , MPs , MLAs are
creations of citizens and are subservient , subordinate to the citizens of
india. Creations cann’t
be supreme than the creator.
Vohra committee
has officially acknowledged the criminalization of politics , parliament ,
legislatures. The politicians crave for power because , while in power
investigating / prosecuting agencies will be under their control / influence
and they can manipulate the legal process , WHITE WASHING all their crimes.
Just see , recently union home minister Mr.Chidambaram influencing the
delhi police for closing a cheating case against a builder by forcing the
police to file “B” report. Politicians stoop low to
such levels , to make money Ex : irregularities in purchase of coffins
meant for kargil martyrs , allotment of flats meant for war widows , war
veterans at Mumbai.
If proper
accountability of public servants is legally enacted, independence , autonomy
of judiciary & police is legally enacted , then those in power cann’t WHITE WASH their own crimes. That
is the reason many political parties are opposing “LOKPAL BILL” since decades under many pretexts.
Subject to
conditions , I do offer my services to the government of india & supreme
court of india , to legally apprehend CRIMINALS , CORRUPT PUBLIC
SERVANTS , ARE YOU READY ?
FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS OF CITIZENS Vs PRIVILEGES OF CONSTITUTIONAL FUNCTIONARIES IN INDIA
Let the Legislators of states, members of parliament, High courts & Supreme Court Judges & other constitutional functionaries answer the following questions which are vital in a democracy.
1) What are the fundamental rights of a citizen guaranteed under the constitution (Article 21) ?
2) What are the privileges conferred on legislators & parliamentarians by the constitution of India?
a) Inside the House b) Outside the House
3) What are privileges conferred on constitutional functionaries, like
a) President of India b) Prime Minister of India
c) Chief Justice of India d) Chairman of NHRC
e) Central Vigilance Commissioners.
4) Are the privileges legal immunity conferred on above mentioned constitutional functionaries ?
a) Cover all their official actions irrespective of merit.
b) Cover both their official & personal actions.
5) Are the privileges defined & codified ?
6) Are these privileges above freedom of the press ?
7) Are the liberty & fundamental rights of the citizens guaranteed by the constitution, above the privileges of the constitutional functionaries or equal or below ?
8) Can the Indian legislatures & parliament be equated to the House of commons in England which is considered to be a superior court and court of records ?
9) Can the division of powers, namely the legislature, the executive and the Judiciary, be equated to the functioning of the House of commons and House of Lords in England ?
10) Can a citizen be said to have committed breach of privilege of the House or court and causing contempt of the house or court by raising the issues of accountability of constitutional functionaries ?
11) Can a Legislature or Parliament enact a new law, to circumvent or to nullify the Judicial orders with respect to wrongdoings by peoples representatives & executive ? does not it amount to infringement of Judicial powers & contempt of the court by the House.
12) Are the FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES of a citizen more important than constitutional duties of a constitutional functionary or equal in importance to it ?
13) Can a constitutional functionary commit crimes, anti-national activities in the name of constitutional duties, behind the legal veil of official's secret act & go unaccountable for his actions and go unpunished by his legal immunity privileges ?
14) Are the Legislators members of parliament, High court & Supreme court Judges and other constitutional functionaries not willing to codify their privileges for the reason that if codified their privileges would be curtailed and their action would be subjected to legal scrutiny. ?
15) By votes of citizens Legislators and parliamentarians get seats in the legislature and Parliament out of tax payer's money, they get their pay, perks & lead 5-Star luxurious lifestyles. Hence whether a vote of a citizen is above (More valid) or a seat of legislator or parliamentarian is above or more valid in a democracy ?
16) Judges & Constitutional functionaries are indirectly appointed by voters / tax payers. Out of tax payers money, they get their pay, perks & lead 5-star luxurious lifestyles. Hence, whether the vote of a citizen, fundamental duties of a tax payer is above (more valid) or a seat of judge / constitutional functionary is above (more
valid) in a democracy ?
17) If there is a vacuum in the Legislature or parliament, who is to fill up that vacuum till such time that the legislature or parliament acts provide a solution by performing its role by enacting proper legislation to cover the field (vacuum) ?
18) While it is an unhealthy practice for a Judge to claim to be a Judge in his own cause, is it not worse for the members of the legislature and parliament to be judges in their own cause ?
19) Are the Technicalities of the case more important to a judge or Justice to a citizen, protection of fundamental rights of citizen.?
20) Why not the constitutional functionaries initiate suo moto action with respect to numerous cases of injustices reported in Media ?
21) Why not the Judges admit various cases of Injustices affecting public, as the Public Interest Litigation" ? In some cases, the Public or the person representing them is unable to afford the high cost of the case. Why not free legal aid is given ?.
22) What is the criteria for admitting a P.I.L. & giving free legal aid ?
23) Communication - free flow of information is the lifeline of a democracy. Why the constitutional functionaries are not honouring the Right to Information of Citizens ?
JANLOKPAL
BILL - Need for Accountability of
VVIPS
While
drafting our constitution of india , drafting members -
freedom fighters themselves assumed that in future also the
persons who will occupy constituional positions will be sincere & of
high impeccable integrity. However they were proved wrong. Late
Prime Minister of Great Britain Mr.Winston Churchill has been proved right.
"Power
will go to the hands of rascals, , rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders
will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly
hearts. They will fight among themselves for power and will be lost in
political squabbles . A day would come when even air & water will be
taxed." Sir Winston made this statement in the House of Commons just
before the independence of India & Pakistan.
Nowadays
, criminals have entered into public service , working as police ,
magistrates , etc. Criminals have become MPs , MLAs and are also working as
Cabinet Ministers . Criminals have become judges , some of them
have become supreme court judges.
End
result CRIMINALS POLICING THE OTHER CRIMINALS ,
CRIMINALS DRAFTING LAWS , CRIMINALS JUDGING OTHERS.
Even
there are cases of irregularities , illegalit
ies by Prime Minister of India and Irregularities , illegalities committed by supreme court of india judges . Example : JMM MPs bribery case , CWG Scam , 2G Scam , Bofors Scandal , etc and Bhopal Gas Tragedy Judgement fixing by then chief justice of india by way of alteration of charges , financial irregularities , illegal dealings by supreme court judges , etc.
ies by Prime Minister of India and Irregularities , illegalities committed by supreme court of india judges . Example : JMM MPs bribery case , CWG Scam , 2G Scam , Bofors Scandal , etc and Bhopal Gas Tragedy Judgement fixing by then chief justice of india by way of alteration of charges , financial irregularities , illegal dealings by supreme court judges , etc.
In this
backdrop , continuing with legal immunity to Prime minister of india ,
supreme court judges or any constitutional persons is nothing but blanket
clearance to those VVIPs to commit more crimes , more anti-national
acts wthout the fear of Law or Legal Prosecution. THIS LEGAL
IMMUNITY IS & WILL BE AGAINST THE BASIC
CONSTITUTIONAL LETTER & SPIRIT OF EQUALITY
& EQUITABLE JUSTICE.
Are not
some of the cabinet minsiters , so called constitutional
experts , great advocates aware of this fundamental violation of
constitution of india. Ofcourse , these advocates rightly fight for ,
take the cases of poor , commonman , they usually take cases of MNCs , Big time
criminals , etc. Let these constitutional experts show us a
single government hospital without corruption . Let the light
of our constitution shine on our learned
friends in the parliament belonging to all political parties. Corruption
is there in every political party , in the same way there are very few
honest persons in all political parties , judiciary , police & public
service. Why you are afraid of accountability to people , while you
are enjoying 5-star luxurious lifestyles at tax payer’s expense ?
If you
are so sincere READ ARTICLES / CASE at following web pages &
ANSWER :
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Xeroxing
Corruption
By
Ashutosh Sinha
Special to India Resource Center
September 30, 2002
Special to India Resource Center
September 30, 2002
Not
many in India might have actually seen the field gun from Bofors AB, either
standing sentinel on the borders or in operation. The guns played a key role in
the skirmishes at Kargil in 1999. The same anonymity does not hold good for Xerox,
which has now entered the dictionary as a verb in its own right for
photocopying documents.
Since
its name has become synonymous with the allegations of kickbacks, few companies
would like to be compared with Bofors. But since the deal was a big commercial
success for arms dealers, some companies would, perhaps, be tempted to employ
the same tactics as the Bofors middlemen.
The
Swedish firm Bofors AB allegedly paid Rs.640 million ($13 million) in bribes to
middlemen to get the contracts for the deal signed in 1986. Nearly a decade
later, Enron India spent US$ 20 million in "educating" Indian
bureaucrats about the role of private companies in power generation, an
euphemism for bribes. Two telecom companies, Essar and Swisscom, were alleged to
have paid a former minister, Sukh Ram, a hefty amount during early 1996 to help
change the original license conditions, which it had signed with the Department
of Telecommunications. There was no case against Sukh Ram, simply because this
deal was never investigated.
Significantly,
none of the allegations made above have yet been proven in a court of law.
Xerox
India was treading on familiar path, something which its US headquarters got to
know later. According to the parent company's own admission, which emerged during
its audit, it paid over $600,000 as bribes to various government employees to
win contracts. In essence, the modus operandi was just a 'photocopy' of the way
some other companies operate.
Under
the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), it is a serious criminal offence for
a US company to pay bribes in a foreign country to obtain contracts. Being
managed by the BK Modi group, one of Indias oldest family run business empires,
at the time when the bribes were paid, it is now like a sword hanging at the neck
of Xerox. The BK Modi group has denied having paid any bribes. Xerox Modicorp
Limited (as the company is now called) completes 19 years in India this
September. It changed its name from Modi Xerox Limited to Xerox Modicorp
Limited in 2000.
The
Indian government was quick to order an inquiry. A promise that accompanied the
order was that the inquiry would be completed in two weeks. Over a month later,
the two weeks are not yet over. Now, the million-dollar question - for a
company that calls itself 'The Document Company' - is there enough documentary
evidence to prosecute the company?
The
Department of Company Affairs (DCA), the arm of the government that wields the
stick to ensure that companies meet their stated objectives and do not dupe the
shareholders, is looking into the details. Xerox was not duping shareholders,
much the same way as the military hardware company AB Bofors. Both were, in
fact, trying to reward their shareholders by giving the extra edge to their
sales team by "taking care" of those taking a final decision on the
purchase of their products. DCA is still not sure whether the bribes were
actually paid or if the amount was pocketed by Modi or his men.
There
is a stark difference between the two cases, though. Bofors is a European
company, Xerox an American. Their products are proverbially as different as
chalk and cheese - one sold military hardware, the other office automation
products. While the Bofors payoffs involved the government official right at
the top in the government, the Xerox payoffs appear to have been made to the
operations level people in government. Besides, the nature of arms deals is
such that the best deal has to be sewn in one shot. Office automation products
are regularly purchased by companies and governments. So, if a few people can
be identified, their palms can be greased regularly to put the product. The
agents who helped Bofors are still trying to block investigations and any
information into their money laundering. The amount involved in the Xerox case
is far smaller.
Xerox,
however, does deserve a pat on the back for having the courage to admit the
payoffs in public.
There
are some parallels between the two companies. Bofors money found its way to
exotic places that you would find difficult to locate on the world map -
Luxembourg, Bahamas, Liechtenstein, Channel Islands. The Xerox India payoffs
did not have such exotic addresses. Two of the companies to which payments were
made had slum areas of Delhi as their addresses while two others were located
in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
While
the Bofors deal had strong political linkages, there is talk of the involvement
of a Samajwadi Party politician, who has interests in the paper business, in
the Xerox case. That allegation is yet to be probed, though.
AE
Services, Svenska, Lotus, Tulip and Mont Blanc are some of the names of bank
accounts that are associated with the alleged Bofors payoffs. The money has
gone into a variety of accounts before disappearing various pockets. Officials
of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's premier investigating
agency, suspect that these people include the late Win Chadha, an Italian
called Ottavio Quattrochchi and the Hinduja brothers. If the Xerox India deal
had been bigger, with international ramifications, it would not have chosen
names like Charu Paper Ltd., Chadha Paper Ltd., Pioneer Enterprises and Elite
Commercial Services.
At
the time when these bribes were paid, the company was controlled by the BK Modi
group, which owned majority shares in the joint venture. When Xerox acquired
control of the company (it now owns 68 per cent while BK Modi controls 28 per
cent in the joint venture) in 2000, it ordered an inspection of the books by
the audit firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, which raised disturbing questions. The
audit firm said that it was not sure the organizations existed and, if they
did, who owns or controls them. BK Modi Group has interests in telecom,
entertainment and manufacturing.
Xerox
has over 50 per cent market share in photocopiers in India. 1998 was a landmark
year for the photocopier industry. Of the estimated 40,000 machines sold that
year, an estimated 27,000 were Xerox machines. However, that was an aberration
and nearly 30,000 machines are sold in the market each year at present. Nearly
60 per cent of the sales are made to government organisations.
Incidentally,
the bribes are alleged to have been paid in 1998 and 1999. In 1998, the 15-year
tie-up between Modis and Xerox ended. Xerox had entered India after a tie up
with the BK Modi Group and Modi Xerox Limited was incorporated in 1983.
The
Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which had looked into the Bofors deal
before CBI started its investigations of bribery charges, had similarly not
given a clean chit to the Rajiv Gandhi government. The government survived the
day but since then, the Congress party has never won a majority in the Indian
Parliament. Bofors has also entered India's political lexicon as a synonym for
bribery.
DCA
officials are tight-lipped about the direction in which their Xerox
investigation is meandering. These are just four names that have tumbled out of
the closet. Reports suggest that it is a web of 85 companies through which
payments have been made. The challenge before DCA is to verify whether payments
were made to individuals in the government or did some officials of Modi Xerox
(as the company was then called) pocket the money.
While
it is still to be established where the money actually went, DCA officials
admit in private that siphoning money out of the company is a routine affair.
Just like every official worth his salt in the CBI knows that big arms deals do
have an element of an underhand deal.
Since
payoffs are now a part of business, this is where the interest of the average
person comes in. Hapless investors have seen scores of cases where the
companies get sick and promoters healthier by the day.
For
all the arms deal that have happened in India, whose defence spending is over
US$ 14 billion every year, only one case has been brought to light. None have
been prosecuted. Of nearly 7,000 publicly listed companies in India, a little
over 2,000 actively trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The rest are companies
which have turned sick, while some of their promoters get healthier.
Radia
lobbied to get Raja telecom ministry
Union
Communications Minister A. Raja has been caught on tape lobbying with a
corporate PR agent for a place in the Manmohan Singh cabinet during the second
term of the UPA.
Headlines Today is in exclusive possession of taped conversations between Raja and powerful corporate lobbyist Nira Radia just days before the swearing-in of the cabinet.
The conversations, which were recorded by investigators for the income tax department, raise serious issues about ministerial propriety.
The income tax sleuths had sought permission to tap the telephone of Radia, who was being investigated by the CBI and the income tax department in the telecom spectrum scam.
Radia is one of India's most influential power-brokers and has the biggest corporates of India as clients.
These conversations were recorded over 300 days, starting from August 20, 2008. Raja was lobbying hard to become the next telecom minister and was being helped in this endeavour by Radia.
Here are excerpts from a conversation recorded on May 24, 2009 at 11.05 am.
Raja: My name is cleared?
Radia: Yeah, your case was cleared last night itself. No, what is happening with Daya?
Raja: Textiles or fertilisers?
Radia: Not for Daya though, Azhagiri or Daya only one can come in?
Raja: No, two can come...
Radia: Both?
Radia: Baalu, will be the problem, I hope.
Radia: It will be difficult for the leader to justify three family members.
Raja: (laughs) Yeah, but everybody knows...
Radia: No she said that, Kani told me last night, that is what her father told her yesterday, that for him to justify three family members would be very difficult; he recognises that problem...
Raja: Let us see what we can do...let us fight.
This was how Radia informed Raja that his name had been cleared for the telecom minister's post. The conversation had been recorded just four days before Raja's name was officially announced as the UPA's telecom minister.
So how does a corporate lobbyist get to know who is getting which portfolio? And why was Raja discussing portfolios with a corporate lobbyist?
Not just Raja, the tapes have Radia talking to DMK chief M. Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi as well.
In these conversations, Kanimozhi - referred to as Kani - is heard telling Radia that the DMK must get the telecom portfolio. Here are excerpts from the conversation recorded on May 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm.
Kani: Hello
Radia: PM has already clarified that the deal has not been done. They are still in the middle of discussing it.
Kani: They've already promised to give us telecom...but it cannot become that they shift...
Radia: What?
Kani: They have already told us that they will give us telecom. Now it shouldn't be given to him because he's going around planting stories.
Radia: He's planting it on all the channels while you were on the plane.
Kani: Ya I know that.
Radia: But Kanni, the PM has just made a statement that I have no problems with Raja and Baalu and they are my esteemed colleagues.
Kani: He can make a statement. But whoever's going to come and talk to dad shouldn't talk otherwise.. See what people say outside and what actually they mean is different... And all of us know that in politics.
Not just telecom, Radia and Kanimozhi had a long conversation about who is getting what portfolio. What was surprising is that Radia seemed to know exactly what is happening and who was getting which portfolio.
Here are more excerpts from the conversations:
Radia: Kani there's feedback from the Congress. They say we recognise that the problem with the DMK is an internal problem. It's a problem between the family. It's a problem between their own people. They have given us a list of five people. This is not acceptable to us.
Kani: Ya
Radia: It is for them to resolve. We have told them what is the best that we can do.
Kani: Three and four...
Radia: We appreciate that the dialogue has broken down but it is not for us to get back to them. As far as we are concerned, Maran has been calling Ghulam Nabi Azad on the half hour demanding all sorts of things and they have told him that there is no point in you calling us.
Kani: But what is the demand he's got.
Radia: He has been making the same demands that you give us five portfolios or we will not join or give us railways, otherwise he has also demanded coal and mines. So they are saying as far as we are concerned this is an internal DMK problem. It has nothing to do with the Congress at all. They have taken a decision that it is for Karuna to decide who he wants and who he doesn't want in the formula. That has been provided to him. It's up to Karuna to decide but they feel that there are far too many people calling him including Maran.
The question is, is it proper for a senior leader of the DMK and a minister in the past UPA government to be talking to a known corporate lobbyist? Why is it that the lobbyist seems to know everything about the allocation of portfolios, and long before the information is made public?
Headlines Today is in exclusive possession of taped conversations between Raja and powerful corporate lobbyist Nira Radia just days before the swearing-in of the cabinet.
The conversations, which were recorded by investigators for the income tax department, raise serious issues about ministerial propriety.
The income tax sleuths had sought permission to tap the telephone of Radia, who was being investigated by the CBI and the income tax department in the telecom spectrum scam.
Radia is one of India's most influential power-brokers and has the biggest corporates of India as clients.
These conversations were recorded over 300 days, starting from August 20, 2008. Raja was lobbying hard to become the next telecom minister and was being helped in this endeavour by Radia.
Here are excerpts from a conversation recorded on May 24, 2009 at 11.05 am.
Raja: My name is cleared?
Radia: Yeah, your case was cleared last night itself. No, what is happening with Daya?
Raja: Textiles or fertilisers?
Radia: Not for Daya though, Azhagiri or Daya only one can come in?
Raja: No, two can come...
Radia: Both?
Radia: Baalu, will be the problem, I hope.
Radia: It will be difficult for the leader to justify three family members.
Raja: (laughs) Yeah, but everybody knows...
Radia: No she said that, Kani told me last night, that is what her father told her yesterday, that for him to justify three family members would be very difficult; he recognises that problem...
Raja: Let us see what we can do...let us fight.
This was how Radia informed Raja that his name had been cleared for the telecom minister's post. The conversation had been recorded just four days before Raja's name was officially announced as the UPA's telecom minister.
So how does a corporate lobbyist get to know who is getting which portfolio? And why was Raja discussing portfolios with a corporate lobbyist?
Not just Raja, the tapes have Radia talking to DMK chief M. Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi as well.
In these conversations, Kanimozhi - referred to as Kani - is heard telling Radia that the DMK must get the telecom portfolio. Here are excerpts from the conversation recorded on May 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm.
Kani: Hello
Radia: PM has already clarified that the deal has not been done. They are still in the middle of discussing it.
Kani: They've already promised to give us telecom...but it cannot become that they shift...
Radia: What?
Kani: They have already told us that they will give us telecom. Now it shouldn't be given to him because he's going around planting stories.
Radia: He's planting it on all the channels while you were on the plane.
Kani: Ya I know that.
Radia: But Kanni, the PM has just made a statement that I have no problems with Raja and Baalu and they are my esteemed colleagues.
Kani: He can make a statement. But whoever's going to come and talk to dad shouldn't talk otherwise.. See what people say outside and what actually they mean is different... And all of us know that in politics.
Not just telecom, Radia and Kanimozhi had a long conversation about who is getting what portfolio. What was surprising is that Radia seemed to know exactly what is happening and who was getting which portfolio.
Here are more excerpts from the conversations:
Radia: Kani there's feedback from the Congress. They say we recognise that the problem with the DMK is an internal problem. It's a problem between the family. It's a problem between their own people. They have given us a list of five people. This is not acceptable to us.
Kani: Ya
Radia: It is for them to resolve. We have told them what is the best that we can do.
Kani: Three and four...
Radia: We appreciate that the dialogue has broken down but it is not for us to get back to them. As far as we are concerned, Maran has been calling Ghulam Nabi Azad on the half hour demanding all sorts of things and they have told him that there is no point in you calling us.
Kani: But what is the demand he's got.
Radia: He has been making the same demands that you give us five portfolios or we will not join or give us railways, otherwise he has also demanded coal and mines. So they are saying as far as we are concerned this is an internal DMK problem. It has nothing to do with the Congress at all. They have taken a decision that it is for Karuna to decide who he wants and who he doesn't want in the formula. That has been provided to him. It's up to Karuna to decide but they feel that there are far too many people calling him including Maran.
The question is, is it proper for a senior leader of the DMK and a minister in the past UPA government to be talking to a known corporate lobbyist? Why is it that the lobbyist seems to know everything about the allocation of portfolios, and long before the information is made public?
REAL STORY OF Late DHIRUBHAI AMBANI of
Reliance Industries
The CAG draft
report that nails the connivance between Government agencies
and Reliance Industries Ltd. leading to huge losses to the Government exchequer
is yet another example of the power of corporates in the UPA Government to
subvert rules and regulations in their favour.
The CAG has noted that the former Director-General of
Hydrocarbons (DGH) permitted Reliance to inflate its “development costs” on the gas extraction in the D6
block of KG basin from 2.47 billion dollars to a whopping 8.84 billion dollars.
This money taken by RIL affected the revenues of the Government. Government
should prosecute the former DGH without any delay.
The Government’s connivance with RIL has a direct impact on the aam aadmi
because increased claims of development cost get reflected in the price of gas
given to consumers and also affect the prices of fertilizer and power. Letters
have been written to the Prime Minister to institute an independent enquiry
into the complaint of artificial jacking up of the capital expenditure by RIL
for D6 KG Basin and its hasty approval by the concerned authority to find out
the actual cost before gas price is fixed.
In a repeat of the 2-G scam, the Prime Minister’s silence on the issue, has
again exposed the UPA Government’s acquiescence to corporate manipulation.
Related
posts:
- The Great Billion Dollar Drug Scam
- Supreme Snub : Court SIT A Major Embarrassment For Govt
- Now A Petroleum Scam?
- The -Reliance KG Gas Scam Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick
- Way to Rural Self Reliance: National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)
- Demand For JPC On Spectrum Scam :Go Beyond Rhetoric
- THE ADARSH SOCIETY SCAM A Shocking Exposure of Congress govt Venality – Ashok Dhawale
- SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON KG BASIN GAS -Dipankar Mukherjee
- AMBANIS ROW : GOVT HAS LAST WORD ON KG BASIN GAS PRICE : SC
- POOL PRICING FOR KG BASIN GAS TO HARM ANDHRA PRADESH INTERESTS
- PRODUCTION OF GAS IN KG BASIN
- FINDINGS OF ICAI IN SATYAM SCAM CASE
RELIANCE
INDUSTRIES LIMITED - WHERE IS ACCOUNTABILITY?
Dear mukesh & anil ambani,
The reliance industries has always got a favourable treatment from the state & central governments.there are allegations that ,
1.years ago, the central government gave import concessions for import of certain raw materials of textile sector ,which hugely benefitted the P.F.Y & TEXTILE projects of your's ie reliance industries.
2.the O.N.G.C which has painstakingly surveyed the oil & gas reserves & prepared a list of lists,gave that list & you got godavari basin oil & gas project from the government .O.N.G.C could have developed it & earned millions.
3.few months back you were charged both by the government & cellular operators (GSM) that you are giving S.T.D & ROAMING FACILITIES to your reliance phone subscribers.your's was only a W.L.L. they even claimed that you are misusing a legal loophole & causing crores of losses to the government & other GSM operators. however while the issue was before the T.R.A.I, the trai legalized your actions by announcing unified licence for telecom operators.
4.now you are charged by the government of re-routing ISD CALLS as local calls,thereby causing crores of losses to the government & BSNL.this time also you may get the reprieve from the government. the government ,if a commonman does not pay his electric bills in time slaps interest & cuts down the electric supply immediately.
however the same government ,even if your company has been alleged of causing crores of rupees losses to the government & other players, always enacts favourable laws for you like a SANTA CLAUS.
WILL YOU PLEASE CLARIFY mr.mukesh ambani & mr.anil ambani?
the TRAI announced unified licence regime in haste that too with retrospective effects.so all the charges against reliance were dropped. in the same vein as unified licence got retrospective effect , why not the government re-imburse the differece amount out of hefty fees collected from other cellular operators ? take the reliance fees as bench mark.anyway , finally commonman is the looser.
Judgement Fixing in Indian Courts of Law /
Justice
SHAME
SHAME to Corrupt Judges , Corrupt Police & Corrupt Public Servants
- Indian Judicial / Legal System For Sale
The Corrupt Among Public Servants are making futile , all the sacrifices made by our forefathers , freedom fighters in securing independence from british occupiers .
Threat to India’s Independence , Freedom , National Unity & Integrity is from Corrupt Police , Corrupt Judges & Corrupt Public Servants. SHAME to those corrupt police , judges & public servants.
Recently we have seen media reports about 2G spetrum scam , land mafia , mining mafia , how a law maker of the land Home Minister of Gujarath state government himself was the master mind involved in the conspiracy of fake encounter eliminating sohrabuddin . We have also seen how senior police officers extorted money from businessmen & others by foisting false cases .
We have also seen media reports about the ROWDY BEHAVIOUR of some people’s representatives in legislative assemblies & parliament in the past & recently. The members of the house , people’s representatives themselves are making contempt of the house. These MPs , MLAs other then hiking their own salaries & perks , must first learn class room discipline punctuality , attendance , home work preparation , etc from PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS . IT IS THE URGENT NEED OF THE HOUR .
We have also stated with relevant media reports how match fixing is done in our Indian Legal System from the stage of FIR filing , planting witneses , silencing witnesses , judgement fixing , torture in jail , etc . read articles at following websites
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/shame-shame---indian-legal-system-for-sale ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/cross-exam-of-chief-justice-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/deal-deal-mega-deals-in-supreme-court-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/bhopal-gas-verdict-fixed-years-earlier ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/shame-shame-to-supreme-court-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/is-the-supreme-court-of-india-deaf-dumb-blind ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/show-cause-notice-to-chief-justice-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/narco-analysis-polygraph---right-or-wrong ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/match-fixing-in-cricket-ipl-police-judiciary-government-in-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/writ-of-mandamus-to-cji-others ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/aeroplane-rides-for-corrupt-police-corrupt-judges ,
When everybody else does the mistake , wrong doing , indulges in corruption , judiciary alone must be pure like virgin to punish & guide the wrong doers. Now , the apex court of the land & the highest judicial officer of the land , the conscience keeper , protector of rights , Constitutional guardian of the land – The Honourable Chief Justice of India himself Has been found guilty . SHAME SHAME.
Nowadays , we are seeing criminalization of politics , judiciary & police. The rowdy elements have become MLAs & MPs & frequestly indulge in fisticuffs , vulgar abuses in the precincts of the house itself . These rowdy elements take money for asking questions in the parliament , to vote for bills & for a price pass legislations favouring lobbies of rich crooks. The police frame , torture innocents & let out rich crooks for a price . For a price police destroy evidences , records and create fake records , evidences. Finally there are judges who issue arrest warrants , give bail , give acquittal & pass favourable judgements ALL FOR A PRICE . SHAME SHAME . These corrupt judges , police , MPs , MLAs each take salary & perks far exceeding lakhs per annum , but serve rich crooks instead of Indian Public. These corrupt are parasites & deadlier , state enemies than naxalites , terrorists. Democracy in our country , our hard won national independence is endangered by these parasites , corrupt judges , police & people’s representatives only. These parasites themselves are responsible for origin & growth of naxalism / terrorism in india .
The Corrupt Among Public Servants are making futile , all the sacrifices made by our forefathers , freedom fighters in securing independence from british occupiers .
Threat to India’s Independence , Freedom , National Unity & Integrity is from Corrupt Police , Corrupt Judges & Corrupt Public Servants. SHAME to those corrupt police , judges & public servants.
Recently we have seen media reports about 2G spetrum scam , land mafia , mining mafia , how a law maker of the land Home Minister of Gujarath state government himself was the master mind involved in the conspiracy of fake encounter eliminating sohrabuddin . We have also seen how senior police officers extorted money from businessmen & others by foisting false cases .
We have also seen media reports about the ROWDY BEHAVIOUR of some people’s representatives in legislative assemblies & parliament in the past & recently. The members of the house , people’s representatives themselves are making contempt of the house. These MPs , MLAs other then hiking their own salaries & perks , must first learn class room discipline punctuality , attendance , home work preparation , etc from PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS . IT IS THE URGENT NEED OF THE HOUR .
We have also stated with relevant media reports how match fixing is done in our Indian Legal System from the stage of FIR filing , planting witneses , silencing witnesses , judgement fixing , torture in jail , etc . read articles at following websites
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/shame-shame---indian-legal-system-for-sale ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/cross-exam-of-chief-justice-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/deal-deal-mega-deals-in-supreme-court-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/bhopal-gas-verdict-fixed-years-earlier ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/shame-shame-to-supreme-court-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/is-the-supreme-court-of-india-deaf-dumb-blind ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/show-cause-notice-to-chief-justice-of-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/narco-analysis-polygraph---right-or-wrong ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/match-fixing-in-cricket-ipl-police-judiciary-government-in-india ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/writ-of-mandamus-to-cji-others ,
http://sites.google.com/site/sosevoiceforjustice/aeroplane-rides-for-corrupt-police-corrupt-judges ,
When everybody else does the mistake , wrong doing , indulges in corruption , judiciary alone must be pure like virgin to punish & guide the wrong doers. Now , the apex court of the land & the highest judicial officer of the land , the conscience keeper , protector of rights , Constitutional guardian of the land – The Honourable Chief Justice of India himself Has been found guilty . SHAME SHAME.
Nowadays , we are seeing criminalization of politics , judiciary & police. The rowdy elements have become MLAs & MPs & frequestly indulge in fisticuffs , vulgar abuses in the precincts of the house itself . These rowdy elements take money for asking questions in the parliament , to vote for bills & for a price pass legislations favouring lobbies of rich crooks. The police frame , torture innocents & let out rich crooks for a price . For a price police destroy evidences , records and create fake records , evidences. Finally there are judges who issue arrest warrants , give bail , give acquittal & pass favourable judgements ALL FOR A PRICE . SHAME SHAME . These corrupt judges , police , MPs , MLAs each take salary & perks far exceeding lakhs per annum , but serve rich crooks instead of Indian Public. These corrupt are parasites & deadlier , state enemies than naxalites , terrorists. Democracy in our country , our hard won national independence is endangered by these parasites , corrupt judges , police & people’s representatives only. These parasites themselves are responsible for origin & growth of naxalism / terrorism in india .
2G
SCAM
The 2G spectrum scandal involved
officials in the government of India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies
for frequency
allocation licenses, which they would use to create 2Gsubscriptions for cell phones. The
shortfall between the money collected and the money which the law mandated to
be collected is estimated to be 
176,645 crore (US$39
billion) as valued by Comptroller and Auditor General of India based
on 3G and BWA spectrum auction prices which held in
2010.[1] However
the exact loss is disputed, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)pegged the loss
at Rs 30,984.55 crores in its first charge sheet filed on April 2, 2011[2], whereas Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in
a response to CBI's query said that the Govt. has actually gained Rs. 3,000
crores by selling the spectrum. [3]. Kapil Sibal,
minister for communications & IT, said in a press conference that there was
no loss caused by selling 2G licenses. [4]. However
in September 2011, CBI argued before the Supreme Court that it was unsafe to
read a "no loss" conclusion in the telecom regulator's calculations
on irregular spectrum allotment as the methodology adopted admittedly did not
take into account the market mechanism.[5] All
the speculations of profit, loss and no-loss were put to rest when on February
02, 2012 the Supreme Court of India delivered judgement. The
Supreme Court declared the allotment of spectrum as "unconstitutional and
arbitrary" and quashed all the 122 licenses issued during tenure of A. Raja, the main
accuse of 2G scam. [6] The
court further said that A. Raja "wanted to favour some companies at the
cost of the public exchequer" and "virtually gifted away important
national asset".[7]
176,645 crore (US$39
billion) as valued by Comptroller and Auditor General of India based
on 3G and BWA spectrum auction prices which held in
2010.[1] However
the exact loss is disputed, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)pegged the loss
at Rs 30,984.55 crores in its first charge sheet filed on April 2, 2011[2], whereas Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in
a response to CBI's query said that the Govt. has actually gained Rs. 3,000
crores by selling the spectrum. [3]. Kapil Sibal,
minister for communications & IT, said in a press conference that there was
no loss caused by selling 2G licenses. [4]. However
in September 2011, CBI argued before the Supreme Court that it was unsafe to
read a "no loss" conclusion in the telecom regulator's calculations
on irregular spectrum allotment as the methodology adopted admittedly did not
take into account the market mechanism.[5] All
the speculations of profit, loss and no-loss were put to rest when on February
02, 2012 the Supreme Court of India delivered judgement. The
Supreme Court declared the allotment of spectrum as "unconstitutional and
arbitrary" and quashed all the 122 licenses issued during tenure of A. Raja, the main
accuse of 2G scam. [6] The
court further said that A. Raja "wanted to favour some companies at the
cost of the public exchequer" and "virtually gifted away important
national asset".[7]
The issuing of
licenses occurred in 2008, but the scam came to public notice when the Indian
Income Tax Department was investigating political lobbyist Nira Radia. The
government's investigation and the government's reactions to the findings in
the investigation were the subject of debate, as were the nature of the Indian
media's reactions. Much of the credit of bringing this whole scam into the
public light (by pursuing it in the court of law) goes to Subramanian Swamy who
is the chief petitioner for this case in the court of law
India is
divided into 22 telecoms zones and there are a total 281 zonal licences in the
market.[10] In
2008, 122 new 2G spectrum licenses were given to telecom companies at the price
of 2001 and on first come first serve basis.[11] The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) says that
several rules were violated and bribes were paid to favour certain firms while
awarding 2G spectrum licenses. The audit report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India says
that several licenses were issued to firms with no prior experience in the
telecom sector or were ineligible or had suppressed relevant facts.[12]. In 2007, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)
had given its recommendations on pricing of 2G spectrum to A.Raja but he did
not place the recommendations before the full Telecom Commission which, among
others, would have included the Finance Secretary.[13] In
November 2007 Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh had
written a letter to telecom minister A. Raja directing him to ensure allotment
of 2G spectrum in a fair and transparent manner and to ensure licence fee was
properly revised. Raja wrote back to the Prime Minister rejecting many of his
recommendations.[14] In
the same month "Finance Ministry" wrote letter to "Department of
Telecom" raising concerns over the procedure adopted by it[15] but
"Department of Telecom" went ahead with its plan of giving 2G licenses.
It preponed the cut-off date to September 25, from October 1, 2007. Later on
the same day, DoT posted an announcement on its website saying those who apply
between 3.30 and 4.30 pm would be issued licences in accordance with the said
policy.[16] Companies
like Unitech & Swan Telecom got licenses without any prior telecom
experience.[17] Swan
Telecom got the license even though it did not meet eligibility criteria.[18] Swan
got license for Rs. 1537 crore and then it sold 45% stake to UAE based company Etisalat for Rs. 4200 crore..[19] Unitech
Wireless, a subsidiary of the Unitech Group, got
license for Rs. 1661 crore and later sold 60% stake for Rs. 6200 crore to
Norway based company Telenor.[20]
Following is
the list of companies who got the 122 2G licenses during the tenure of A. Raja as
Telecom Minister. [21] [22] (The
licenses were later quashed by Supreme Court) [23] [24]
|
Name
of Company
|
Telecom
regions for which license was granted
|
Number
of license granted
|
Remarks
|
|
Adonis Projects Pvt. Ltd.
|
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu
& Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (East)
|
6
|
Adonis Projects, Nahan Properties,
Aska Projects, Volga Properties, Azare Properties & Hudson Properties
were acquired by Unitech. Unitech Infrastructure and Unitech Builders &
Estates were already subsidiaries of Unitech Group. So
in 2008 Unitech had
22 2G licenses. Later in the same year Norway based company Telenor bought
majority stake in the telecom company from the Unitech Group. Now
it offers services under Uninor brand
holding 22 pan India licences.
|
|
Nahan Properties Pvt. Ltd.
|
Assam, Bihar, North East, Orissa,
Uttar Pradesh (East), West Bengal
|
6
|
|
|
Aska Projects Ltd.
|
Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka
|
3
|
|
|
Volga Properties Pvt. Ltd.
|
Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra
|
3
|
|
|
Azure Properties Ltd.
|
Kolkata
|
1
|
|
|
Hudson Properties
|
Delhi
|
1
|
|
|
Unitech Builders & Estates
Pvt. Ltd.
|
Tamil Nadu (including Chennai)
|
1
|
|
|
Unitech Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd.
|
Mumbai
|
1
|
|
|
Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal, Pradesh,
Kerala, Kolkata, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh
(West), West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra,
Orissa, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh,
North East
|
21
|
|
|
|
Datacom Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
|
Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar,
Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala,
Kolkata, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, North East, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil
Nadu (including Chennai), Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), West
Bengal, Delhi, Mumbai
|
21
|
Operates under brand name Videocon Telecommunications Limited
|
|
Shyam Telelink Limited
|
Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Kolkata,
Punjab, Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), West Bengal, Andhra
Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu
(including Chennai), Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, North East
|
17
|
|
|
Shyani Telelink Limited
|
Mumbai, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal
Pradesh
|
4
|
|
|
Swan Telecom Pvt. Ltd.
|
Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana,
Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (including
Chennai), Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Delhi, Mumbai
|
13
|
In 2008, Swan Telecom merged
itself with Allianz Infratech (P) Ltd. During late 2008 Abu Dhabi'sEtisalat bought about 45 percent of the
company and renamed it to Etisalat DB Telecom
|
|
Allianz Infratech (P) Ltd.
|
Bihar, Madhya Pradesh
|
2
|
|
|
Assam, Punjab, Karnataka, Jammu
and Kashmir, North East, Kolkata, West Bengal, Orissa, Tamil Nadu (including
Chennai)
|
9
|
Idea Cellular bought Spice Communications Ltd. in
2008 for an amount of Rs. 2,700 crore.[25] So
out of 122 spectrum licenses sold in 2008 Idea Cellular owns
13 licenses
|
|
|
Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana,
Maharashtra
|
4
|
||
|
Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa,
North East, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh
|
6
|
Owned by C Sivasankaran (51%)
and Bahrain Telecommunications (49%)
|
|
|
Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, North
East
|
3
|
In late 2008 promoters of Tata
Teleservices sold 26% equity stake to a Japanese telecom
giantNTT Docomo for
about Rs 13,070 crore ($2.7 billion) or an enterprise value of Rs 50,269
crore ($10.38 billion).[26]
|
[edit] Parties accused of involvement
The selling of
the licenses brought attention to three groups of entities – politicians and bureaucrats who had
the authority to sell licenses, corporations who were buying the licenses and
media professionals who mediated between the politicians and the corporations.
[edit] Politicians involved
- A. Raja – the Minister of Communications and Information Technology who sold the licenses
- M. K. Kanimozhi – Rajya Sabha MP
[edit] Bureaucrats involved
- Siddharth Behura – Former Telecom Secretary
- RK Chandolia – Raja's private secretary
[edit] Corporate Executives involved
Corporates
named as accused and/or beneficiary of the 2G spectrum scam in the chargesheet
filed by CBI in the Special Court[27][28][29]
- Vinod Goenka – Swan Telecom promoter
- Sanjay Chandra – Managing Director of Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd
- Gautam Doshi – Managing Director of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
- Hari Nair – Senior vice-president of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
- Surendra Pipara – Senior vice- President of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
- Ravi Ruia - Vice-Chairman of Essar Group
- Anshuman Ruia - Diector of Essar Group
- Vikas Sara - Director for strategy and planning Essar Group
- IP Khaitan - Promotor Loop
- Kiran Khaitan - Promotor Loop
- Shahid Balwa – Swan Telecom promoter
- Sharath Kumar – Managing Director of Kalaignar TV
- Rajiv Agarwal and Asif Balwa (younger brother of Shahid Balwa) – Chief executives of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables
[edit] Film and
Entertainment persons involved
- Karim Morani – Cineyug Media and Entertainment Ltd’s Director
[edit] Corporations accused
Companies named
in the chargesheet filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the
Special court[30][31][32]
- Unitech
- Reliance Telecom
- Swan Telecom
- Loop Telecom Pvt Ltd
- Loop Mobile India Ltd
- Essar Tele Holding
- Essar (Parent group of Essar Tele Holding)
[edit] Media persons accused
Main
article : Radia tapes controversy
Media sources
such as OPEN and Outlook reported
that two senior journalists Barkha Dutt (Group
Editor of NDTV) and Vir Sanghvi (Editorial
Director of Hindustan
Times) knew that corporate lobbyist Nira Radia was
influencing the decisions of appointment of telecom minister. Radia wanted A
Raja to be made telecom minister.[33].The two
magazines made public the telephone conversations between Nira Radia, Barkha Dutt & Vir Sanghvi.[34][35] Radia's
phones were being tapped by Income Tax department. Critics allege that Barkha
Dutt and Vir Sanghvi knew about nexus between government and the media industry
but still they supported this corrupt activity and suppressed news reporting
the discovery of the corrupt practice.[33]However
these people were not named as accused in the chargesheet filed by CBI.
[edit] Shortfall of money
A. Raja arranged
the sale of the 2G spectrum licenses below their market value. Swan Telecom, a
new company with few assets, bought a license for 1,537 crore (US$338.14
million).[36]Shortly
thereafter, the board sold 45% of the company to Etisalat for 4,200 crore (US$924
million). Similarly, a company formerly invested in real estate and not
telecom, the Unitech Group, purchased a license for 1,661 crore (US$365.42
million) and the company board soon after sold a 60% stake in their wireless
division for 6,200 crore (US$1.36
billion) toTelenor.[36] The
nature of the selling of the licenses was that licenses were to be sold at
market value, and the fact that the licenses were quickly resold at a huge
profit indicates that the selling agents issued the licenses below market
value.
1,537 crore (US$338.14
million).[36]Shortly
thereafter, the board sold 45% of the company to Etisalat for 4,200 crore (US$924
million). Similarly, a company formerly invested in real estate and not
telecom, the Unitech Group, purchased a license for 1,661 crore (US$365.42
million) and the company board soon after sold a 60% stake in their wireless
division for 6,200 crore (US$1.36
billion) toTelenor.[36] The
nature of the selling of the licenses was that licenses were to be sold at
market value, and the fact that the licenses were quickly resold at a huge
profit indicates that the selling agents issued the licenses below market
value.
Nine companies
purchased licenses and collectively they paid the Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology's telecommunications division 10,772 crore (US$2.37
billion).[36] The
amount of money expected for this licensing by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India was 176,000 crore (US$38.72
billion).[37] The
report on the details of the financials involved framed by CAG could be found
at the website of Comptroller and auditor general of India (Supreme audit
institution of Government of India).[38]
10,772 crore (US$2.37
billion).[36] The
amount of money expected for this licensing by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India was 176,000 crore (US$38.72
billion).[37] The
report on the details of the financials involved framed by CAG could be found
at the website of Comptroller and auditor general of India (Supreme audit
institution of Government of India).[38]
Following is
the list of companies to whom the 2G spectrum was sold
[edit] Chronology of
Events and Investigation
- May, 2007: A Raja takes over as Telecom Minister. [39]
- Aug, 2007: Process of allotment of 2G spectrum for telecom along with Universal Access Service (UAS) Licences initiated by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
- Sep 25, 2007: Telecom Ministry issues press note fixing deadline for application as October 1, 2007.
- Oct 1, 2007: DoT receives 575 applications for UAS licences of 46 companies. [40]
- Nov 2, 2007: The Prime Minister writes to Raja directing him to ensure allotment of 2G spectrum in a fair and transparent manner and to ensure that licence fee was properly revised. Raja writes back to the Prime Minister rejecting many of his recommendations.
- Nov 22, 2007: Finance Ministry writes to DoT raising concerns over the procedure adopted by it. Demand for review rejected.
- Jan 10, 2008: DoT decides to issue licences on first-come-first-serve basis, preponing the cut-off date to September 25, from October 1, 2007. Later on the same day, DoT posted an announcement on its website saying those who apply between 3.30 pm and 4.30 pm would be issued licences in accordance with the said policy. [41][42]
- 2008: Swan Telecom, Unitech and Tata Teleservices sell off a part of their stakes at much higher rates to Etisalat, Telenor and DoCoMo, respectively.[43][44][45]
- May 4, 2009: An NGO Telecom Watchdog files complaint to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on the illegalities in the spectrum allocation to Loop Telecom.
- May 19, 2009: Another complaint was filed to the CVC by Arun Agarwal, highlighting grant of spectrum to Swan Telecom at throwaway prices.
- 2009: CVC directs CBI to investigate the irregularities in allocation of 2G spectrum.
- July 1, 2009: Delhi HC holds advancing of cut-off date as illegal on a petition of telecom company S-Tel. [46]
- Oct 21, 2009: CBI registers a case and files an FIR against “unknown officers of DoT and unknown private persons/companies under various provisions of IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act.
- Oct 22, 2009: CBI raids DoT offices. [47][48][49]
- Nov 16, 2009: CBI seeks details of tapped conversation of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia to find out involvement of middlemen in the grant of spectrum to telecom companies.
- Mar 13, 2010: SC upholds Delhi HC verdict on cut off date advancement as illegal [50][51]
- Mar 31, 2010: CAG says that there was large scale irregularities in the spectrum allocation.
- Apr 2, 2010: CBI DIG (Investigations) Vineet Agarwal and DG I-T (Investigations) Milap Jain, who were investigating the case, transferred. [52]
- May 6, 2010: Telephonic conversation between Raja and Niira Radia made public by the media. [53]
- May, 2010: NGO Centre for Public Interest litigation moves the Delhi High Court seeking investigation into the scam by SIT or CBI.
- May 25, 2010: Delhi HC dismisses the petition.
- Aug, 2010: Appeal filed in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s order.
- Aug 18, 2010: HC refuses to direct the Prime Minister to decide on a complaint by Janata Party chief Swamy seeking sanction to prosecute Raja for his involvement in 2G scam.
- Sept 13, 2010: SC asks government, Raja to reply within 10 days to
three petitions filed by CPIL and others alleging there was a 70,000 crore (US$15.4 billion) scam in the grant of telecom
licences in 2008.
- Sept 24, 2010: Swamy moves SC seeking direction to the PM to sanction prosecution of Raja.
- Sept 27, 2010: Enforcement Directorate informs SC of probe against firms suspected to have violated FEMA. Says can’t deny or confirm now Raja’s involvement in the scam.
- Oct 8, 2010: SC asks government to respond to CAG report about the scam.[54]
- Oct 21, 2010: Draft reports of CAG placed before the Supreme Court.
- Oct 29, 2010: SC pulls up CBI for its tardy progress in the investigations into the scam.[55][56]
- Nov 10, 2010: CAG submits report on 2G spectrum to government
stating loss of 176,000 crore (US$38.72 billion) to exchequer.
- Nov 11, 2010: DoT files affidavit in SC saying CAG did not have the authority to question the policy decision as per which licence were issued to new players in 2008.
- Nov 14, 2010: A Raja resigns as Telecom Minister [57][58]
- Nov 15, 2010: Kapil Sibal given additional charge of Telecom Ministry. [59][60]
- Nov 20, 2010: Affidavit on behalf of PM filed in Supreme Court. Rejects charge of inaction on Swamy’s complaint.[61][62][63]
- Nov 22, 2010: CBI tells SC it will file charge sheet in the case within three months.
- Nov 22, 2010: CBI tells SC role of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia would be questioned by it.
- Nov 24, 2010: SC reserves verdict on Swamy’s plea seeking direction to PM for grant of sanction to prosecute Raja.
- Nov 25, 2010: SC ticks off CBI for not questioning Raja.
- Nov 29, 2010: CBI files status report on 2G spectrum scam probe.
- Nov 30, 2010: SC questions CVC P J Thomas’s moral right to supervise CBI’s probe into 2G spectrum scam as he himself was Telecom Secretary at that point of time. [64]
- Dec 1, 2010: SC directs original tapes containing conversation between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and others be handed over to it.
- Dec 1, 2010: Raja questions CAG findings in the SC.
- Dec 2, 2010: Government places recorded tapes in the SC.
- Dec 2, 2010: SC comes down heavily on Raja for bypassing and overruling PM’s advice to defer allocation of 2G spectrum by a few days.
- Dec 8, 2010: SC favours including in the probe period since 2001 when first-come-first-serve was the norm for spectrum allocation.
- Dec 8, 2010: SC asks Centre to consider setting up of a special court to try 2G spectrum scam case.
- Dec 8, 2010: ED submits report. Says money trail covers 10 countries, including Mauritius.
- Dec 14, 2010: Another PIL in SC seeking cancellation of new telecom licences and 2G spectrum allocated during Raja’s tenure.
- Dec 15, 2010: Swamy files petition in a Delhi court seeking his inclusion as a public prosecutor in 2G spectrum case.
- Dec 15, 2010: Swamy mentions in complaint that Raja favoured “ineligible” private companies Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd and Unitech Wireless Ltd in allocating the spectrum.
- Dec 16, 2010: SC decides to monitor the CBI inquiry [65][66][67]
- Jan 4, 2011: Swamy moves SC seeking cancellation of 2G spectrum licenses.
- Jan 10, 2011: Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on the plea seeking cancellation of 2G licenses. Also issues notices to 11 companies which allegedly did not fulfill the roll-out obligations or were ineligible.
- Jan 30, 2011: Government’s decision to regularise licenses of the companies which failed to meet the deadline for roll-out obligation challenged in the Supreme Court.
- Feb 2, 2011: Raja, former Telecom Secretary Siddartha Behura and Raja’s former Personal Secretary R K Chandolia arrested and next day they were remanded in CBI custody.
- Feb 8, 2011: Raja remanded to two more days of CBI custody. Behura and Chandolia sent to judicial custody.
- Feb 8, 2011: Shahid Usman Balwa, promoter of Swan Telecom, arrested by CBI.
- Feb 10, 2011: SC asks CBI to bring under its scanner corporate houses which were beneficiaries of the 2G spectrum. Raja remanded to CBI custody for four more days by a special CBI court along with Balwa.
- Feb 14, 2011: Raja’s CBI custody extended for three more days. Balwa’s custody extended for four days.
- Feb 17, 2011: Raja sent to Tihar Jail under judicial custody.
- Feb 18, 2011: Balwa sent to judicial custody.
- Feb 24, 2011: CBI tells a Delhi court that Balwa facilitated transaction to Kalaignar TV.
- Feb 28, 2011: Raja seeks judicial proceedings through video conferencing stating that he faces threat to life from fellow prisoners.
- Mar 1, 2011: CBI tells SC that 63 persons are under scanner. Raja allowed by CBI court to appear before it via video-conferencing.
- Mar 14, 2011: The Delhi High Court sets up special court to deal exclusively with 2G cases. Balwa also allowed to appear via video-conferencing.
- Mar 17, 2011: SC reserves order on cancellation of 2G licenses. It rejected companies' claim saying that Principle of Estoppel can't be applied to protect illegality. [68][69]
- Mar 29, 2011: SC permits CBI to file charge sheet on April 2 instead of March 31. Two more persons — Asif Balwa and Rajeev Agarwal — arrested.
- Apr 2, 2011: CBI files its first charge sheet in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.[70][71][72]
- Apr 25, 2011: CBI files second charge sheet and court issues summons to Kanimozhi, Sharad Kumar and Karim Morani taking cognizance of the charge sheet.[73][74][75]
- May 6, 2011: Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar appear before court and file bail pleas while Morani sought exemption from appearance on medical ground.[76][77][78]
- May 6, 2011: SC issues contempt notice to Sahara India managing director Subroto Roy and two others for alleged interference in the ongoing ED investigation into the 2G spectrum case. [79][80]
- May 7, 2011: Special CBI Court reserves order on Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar’s bail applications.
- May 14, 2011: Special CBI Court defers order on their bail pleas for May 20.
- May 20, 2011: Special CBI Court rejects bail pleas of Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar and orders their forthwith arrest saying that there was a possibility of witnesses being influenced considering the magnitude of the crime. [81][82]
- June 8, 2011: Delhi HC rejects bail pleas of Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar citing that there are certain prima facie evidences against the accused and they may be in a position to influence the 2G probe [83][84]
- June 20, 2011: SC rejects Kanimozhi’s bail plea [85][86][87]
- July 25, 2011: Arguments on Charge begins. Raja seeks to make Prime Minister and former finance minister P Chidambaram as witness.
- Aug 26, 2011: Special CBI court allows Subramanian Swamy to argue his own case (mainly to address the possible loop holes in CBI investigation of the case) [88][89]
- Aug 30, 2011: ED orders
freezing of accounts, attachment of properties worth 223 crore (US$49.06 million) of five companies mainly
related to DB
Realty under the provisions ofPrevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) [90][91]
- Sept 15, 2011: Swamy pleads before special CBI court that P Chidambaram should be made co-accused[92]
- Sept 22, 2011: CBI defends Chidambaram in SC, blames DoT for all wrongs.
- Sept 26, 2011: CBI moves plea for framing fresh charge for criminal breach of trust against Raja, Chandolia and Behura. [93][94]
- Sept 29, 2011: CBI says role of Anil Ambani being probed, gives a virtual clean chit to Tata and Videocon group.[95][96]
- Oct 9, 2011: CBI files FIR against Maran and his brother in Aircel-Maxis deal. [97][98][99]
- Oct 10, 2011: SC reserves order against Subramanian Swamy’s plea for a probe into Home Minister Chidambaram’s role in the 2G scam.[100][101]
- Oct 22, 2011: Special CBI Court finds prima facie evidence to put on trial all 17 accused including Raja on various counts like criminal conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating and forgery. [102][103]
- Nov 3, 2011: Special CBI court dismisses bail pleas of all the 8 applicants (including Kanimozhi) [104]
- Nov 8, 2011: Special CBI court orders CBI to give copy of file on sale of equity by telecom companies (for investigating P Chidambaram's involvement) to Swamy [105][106]
- Nov 9, 2011: Delhi HC refuses to grant interim bail to Karim Morani on health grounds wondering Why everybody falls sick once he is in custody? HC issues notice to the CBI on its reply on the bail pleas of the five accused by December 1. [107][108]
- Nov 11, 2011: Trial of the 17 accused begins in Patiala House special CBI court. [109][110]
- Nov 14, 2011: UPA govt moves SC seeking to restrain Dr Subramanian Swamy from making public allegations against the UPA leadership (especially Home Minister P Chidambaram and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi) in the 2G scam case [111][112]
- Nov 22, 2011: The Special CBI court shifts the trial to the Tihar Jail complex following a Delhi high court order [113][114]
- Nov 23, 2011: SC grants bail to 5 corporate executives – Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless, Vinod Goenka of Swan Telecom as well as Reliance Group's Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nayar. [115]
- Nov 28, 2011: HC grants bail to DMK MP Kanimozhi and 4 others namely Karim Morani, Sharad Kumar and Asif Balwa and Rajeev Agarwal. The court upheld the principle of parity under Section 144 of the Constitution of India that upholds an order passed by the SC. [116][117]
- Nov 29, 2011: The special CBI court grants bail to Shahid Balwa citing principle of parity that SC and HC have already granted bail to 10 other accused [118][119]
- Dec 01, 2011: The special CBI court grants bail to A. Raja's ex-private secretary R. K. Chandolia and puts additional condition to not visit the DoT without prior permission of the court [120][121]
- Dec 02, 2011: Taking a suo motu cognizance, HC stays bail given by trial court to R K Chandolia [122]
- Dec 07, 2011: SC stays HC's suo motu order against Chandolia's bail [123][124]
- Dec 08, 2011: The special CBI court accepts Swamy's plea against Chidambaram to become a witness in his own complaint and examine 2 witnesses, including senior CBI official and senior Finance Ministry official [125][126]
- Dec 12, 2011: CBI files third charge sheet naming Essar Group promoters Ravi Ruia, his son Anshuman Ruia and its director (Strategy and Planning) Vikas Saraf, Loop Telecompromoters Kiran Khaitan (sister of Ravi Ruia) and her husband I P Khaitan. It also charge sheets Loop Mobile India Ltd, its subsidiary Loop Telecom Pvt Ltd and Essar Tele Holding.[127][128]
- Dec 16, 2011: HC rejects bail plea of Siddharth Behura saying "he was the ‘perpetrator’ of the illegal designs of Raja and would not claim benefit of parity with 10 others released on bail" [129]
- Feb 02, 2012: The Supreme court of India cancelled all 122 licenses allotted during A Raja tenure and imposed Rs 5 crore(US$ 1,018,122) fine on Unitech, Swan & Tata Teleservices. It also imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on Loop Telecom Pvt Ltd, S-Tel, Allianz Infratech and Sistema Shyam Tele Services Ltd. It also asked trial court to decide whether Home Minister P Chidambram should be made co-accused in 2G scam.[130] [131]
- Feb 04, 2012: The special court of justice O.P Saini dismissed the plea of Subramanian Swamy to make then Finance Minister P.Chidambram as co-accused in the 2G scam.[132]
[edit] Supreme Court
quashes 122 licences
On February 02,
2012 Supreme Court of India quashed all 122 spectrum
licences granted during the tenure of former communications minister A Raja.[133] The
allocation of 2G spectrum was described by Supreme Court as
"unconstitutional and arbitrary".[134] The
court imposed fine of Rs. 5 crore on Unitech Wireless, Swan telecom and Tata
Teleservices and Rs. 50 lakh fine onLoop Telecom, S Tel, Allianz Infratech and Sistema Shyam Tele Services Ltd.[135] The
Supreme Court's ruling said the current licences will remain in place for four
months, in which time the government should decide fresh norms for issuing
licences, a lawyer involved in the case said.[136].The apex
court said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) would submit its report on
the 2G scam probe to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC).[137]
The Supreme Court said in its order that then telecom minister A. Raja "wanted to favour some companies at the cost of the public exchequer" and listed seven steps he took to ensure this happened.[138] [139] and the seven steps were :
1. After taking
over as telecom minister, Raja directed that all applications received for UAS
licences should be kept pending till receipt of the Trai's recommendations.[140] [141]
2. The
recommendations made by Trai on August 28, 2007, were not placed before the
full Telecom Commission which would have included the finance secretary. The
notice of the meeting of the Telecom Commission was not given to any of the
non-permanent members though Trai's recommendations for allocation of 2G
spectrum had serious financial implications and it was therefore necessary for
DoT to take the finance ministry's opinion under the Government of India
(Transaction of Business) Rules, 1961.[142] [143]
3. The DoT
officers who attended the Telecom Commission meeting held on October 10, 2007,
had no choice but to approve Trai's recommendations, since they would otherwise
have "incurred" Raja's "wrath".[144] [145]
4. Since
Cabinet had approved recommendations made by the Group of Ministers, the DoT
had to discuss the issue of spectrum pricing with the finance ministry. But,
since Raja knew that the finance secretary had objected to the allocation of 2G
spectrum at rates fixed in 2001, he did not consult the finance minister or
other officials.[146] [147]
5. Raja brushed
aside the law minister's suggestion that the matter should be placed before the
empowered group of ministers. Also, within hours of the receipt of the
suggestion made by the PM in his letter dated November 2, 2007, that keeping in
view the inadequacy of spectrum, transparency and fairness should be maintained
in allocation of the spectrum, Raja rejected it saying that it would be unfair,
discriminatory, arbitrary and capricious to auction spectrum to new applicants
because it would not give them a level-playing field. He also introduced a
cut-off date of September 25, 2007, for considering applications though only
the previous day a DoT press release had said October 1, 2007, would be the
last date. This arbitrary action of Raja "though appears to be innocuous
was actually intended to benefit some of the real estate firms who did not have
any experience in dealing with telecom services and who had made applications
only on 24.9.2007, i.e. one day before the cut-off date fixed by the C&IT
minister on his own".[148] [149]
6. The cut-off
date of September 25, 2007, decided by Raja on November 2, 2007, was not made
public till January 10, 2008, and the first-come-first-served principle
followed since 2003 was changed by him at the last moment through a press
release dated January 10, 2008. "This enabled some of the applicants, who
had access either to the minister or DoT officers, get bank drafts prepared
towards performance guarantee of about Rs 1,600 crore".[150] [151]
7. "The
manner in which the exercise for grant of LoIs to the applicants was conducted
on 10.1.2008 leaves no room for doubt that everything was stage managed to
favour those who were able to know in advance change in the implementation of
the first-come-first-served polcy." As a result, some firms which had
submitted applications in 2004 or 2006 were pushed down in the priority and
those who had applied between August and September 2007 succeeded.[152] [153]
[edit] Telecom
Companies affected by cancellation of licenses
|
Name
of Company
|
Parent
Group
|
Number
of licenses cancelled
|
|
Joint venture between Unitech Group of
India and Telenor of
Norway Unitech
Group
|
22
|
|
|
Joint venture between Shyam group
of Indian and Sistema of Russia
|
21
|
|
|
Loop Mobile formerly
BPL Mobile
|
Owned by Khaitan Holding Group
|
21
|
|
Owned by Videocon group
of India
|
21
|
|
|
Etisalat-DB
|
Joint venture between Swan Telecom of
India and Etisalat of UAE
|
15
|
|
Aditya
Birla Groupof India (49.05%), Axiata Group Berhad of Malaysia (15%) & Providence Equity(10.6%)of USA
|
13
|
|
|
Joint venture between C
Sivasankaran of India (51%) and Bahrain Telecommunications (49%)
|
6
|
|
|
Owned by Tata Group of
India
|
3
|
[edit] Response to scam
- In early November 2010 Jayalalithaa accused the state chief minister M Karunanidhi of protecting A. Raja from corruption charges and called for A. Raja's resignation.[156] By mid November A. Raja resigned.[157]
- In mid November the comptroller Vinod Rai issued show-cause notices to Unitech, S Tel, Loop Mobile, Datacom (Videocon), and Etisalat to respond to his assertion that all of the 85 licenses granted to these companies did not have the up-front capital required at the time of the application and were in other ways illegal.[158] Some media sources have speculated that these companies will receive large fines but not have their licenses revoked, as they are currently providing some consumer service.[158]
[edit] Further reading
- Swamy, Subramanian (2011). 2G Spectrum Scam. Har-anand Publications Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 9788124116388.
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