2G scam: CBI told to give additional documents to accused
June 7th, 2011 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, June 7 (IANS) A special trial court here Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to supply additional documents to the accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam within four days or pay a Rs.50,000 fine.
Threatening the investigative agency, CBI Special Judge O.P. Saini said: “The CBI should supply the documents to all the 14 accused chargesheeted in the 2G scam.”
“If they don`t do this within four days, they will have to pay a penalty of Rs.50,000,” said the court.
The court order came after it received a number of applications related to non-supply of documents to the accused.
“We have not been provided important papers, which the original chargesheet contains. The documents in our custody are not in good condition and some of the pages are also missing,” said the application filed by an accused.
“The documents are required for making the base of the arguments,” said the application.
The court said: “No more applications in this regard will be entertained from tomorrow (Wednesday), so whoever wants to file it they can only do it today (Tuesday).”
The court directed the CBI to finish scrutinising essential documents in the case and to supply these to all accused.
“The CBI should target to cover three-four accused in a day,” said the court.
The CBI’s first chargesheet April 2 named former communications minister A. Raja, former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura, Raja’s aide R.K. Chandolia, Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa, Swan Telecom director Vinod Goenka, Unitech Wireless’s Sanjay Chandra and three executives of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group — Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara.
In its April 25 supplementary chargesheet, the CBI named DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar as co-conspirators after it traced an illegal money trail of Rs.214 crore in the scam.
The supplementary chargesheet also named Cineyug Films founder Karim Morani and Asif Balwa and Rajiv B. Aggarwal of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd.
The scam relates to alleged irregularities in the allocation of 2G spectrum to telecom firms, causing huge losses to the national exchequer.
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