2G: Vahanvati deposes as a witness

Attorney General G E Vahanvati, deposing as a witness, on Wednesday told a Special Court trying the 2G case the letter of former telecom minister A Raja to the Prime Minister regarding the DoT’s policy to be adopted for 2G spectrum allocation was not based on discussion with him and the then External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

Vahanvati’s recording of statement would continue on Thursday.

He said the contents of Raja’s 26 December, 2007 letter to the PM regarding discussion with him as the then Solicitor General and Mukherjee on the policy were ‘not correct’.

‘It is wrong to suggest that what was communicated to the Prime Minister as future course of action was based on the discussion with the then Minister for External Affairs (Mukherjee) and me.