The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the CBI to place before it the ‘files and notings’ which purportedly suggest that its Director Ranjit Sinha wants stopping of whole trial against Reliance Telcom Ltd (RTL) and three top executives of the Reliance ADAG, who are accused in the 2G spectrum scam case.
The issue was raised by an NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, one of the PIL petitioner on whose petition the 122 licences for the 2G spectrum was scrapped on 2 February, 2012 by the apex court.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, submitted that reports have appeared in the media that the CBI director and DIG, Santosh Rastogi, had sent a draft request to Special Public Prosecutor U U Lalit to stop the ongoing trial against Reliance and re-open the case for further probe.
He said the Director wants reopening of the whole investigation as ‘the charge sheet is based on a wrong premise’.
‘Why does he want to stop the trial which is almost complete,’ he asked. Bhushan said that the charge sheet was filed on the premise that since RTL was not eligible for the 2G licences, it created Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd as its front company to secure the radio waves while violating the
clause of Unified Access Service Licences (UASL) guidelines.
The issue was raised by an NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, one of the PIL petitioner on whose petition the 122 licences for the 2G spectrum was scrapped on 2 February, 2012 by the apex court.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, submitted that reports have appeared in the media that the CBI director and DIG, Santosh Rastogi, had sent a draft request to Special Public Prosecutor U U Lalit to stop the ongoing trial against Reliance and re-open the case for further probe.
He said the Director wants reopening of the whole investigation as ‘the charge sheet is based on a wrong premise’.
‘Why does he want to stop the trial which is almost complete,’ he asked. Bhushan said that the charge sheet was filed on the premise that since RTL was not eligible for the 2G licences, it created Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd as its front company to secure the radio waves while violating the
clause of Unified Access Service Licences (UASL) guidelines.