Supreme Court for day-to-day trial without adjournment in 2G-scam case
April 8th, 2011 - 7:53 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Apr 8(ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday said that it will direct the special court, set up for trying former Telecom Minister A. Raja and others in the 2G spectrum case, to hold day-to-day trial without any adjournment.
A bench of justices A.K. Ganguly and G.S. Singhvi also said that it would pass a formal order on appointment of senior advocate U.U. Lalit as special public prosecutor on April 11.
“We would make it clear in our order that the special court would hold trial on day-to-day basis and no adjournment on any basis would be allowed,” directed the bench.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier filed its first chargesheet against Raja and some of his close aides in connection with the scam.
Besides, the four accused - Raja, former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, Raja’s former personal assistant R.K.Chandolia, and telecom promoter Shahid Balwa, the CBI has also framed Gautam Doshi, Saurabh Papadiya, Hari Nayar, Sanjay Chandra and three companies - Unitech, Reliance Communications and Swan Telecom.
All the accused have been booked under sections 120(B) (criminal conspiracy), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and 109 (abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence, and where no express provision is made for its punishment) of the Indian Penal Code. (ANI)
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