Economic Times | April 7, 2011
NEW DELHI: Stepping up the pace of its inquiry into the 2G telecom scam , the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has summoned cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar and principal secretary to the Prime Minister T K A Nair on April 16. A day earlier, the committee will speak to CBI chief A P Singh, attorney general Goolam Vahanvati and law secretary D R Meena.
According to the CBI chargesheet in the 2G scam, the telecom ministry had overwritten a significant portion of the January 10, 2008 press release for spectrum allocation after taking Vahanvati’s opinion.
Vahanvati, as the then solicitor general, had also given a legal opinion to the department of telecom in early 2009, saying there was nothing on record to show that Swan Telecom was acting as a front for Reliance Telecom. His opinion had come on a reference given by the Prime Minister’s Office, based on complaints from various people including Subramanian Swamy that Swan was a front for Anil Ambani’s Reliance Telecom, and Reliance had thus violated rules on cross-holding in telecom sector.
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