A special court Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to give Subramanian Swamy a copy of a file which contains all the correspondence between India’s Home Minister P Chidambaram and former Telecom Minister A Raja.
The special CBI court deferred its hearing till December 3 on Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy’s plea to make Home Minister P Chidambaram a co-accused in the 2G spectrum case.
“I asked for an adjournment because I found out that there was a file which CBI did not hand over to the Court. It implicates PC,” Swamy tweeted after hearing.
Swamy has also said that the CBI had deliberately withheld these crucial letters from the court. “This file is very crucial for the angle of corruption in the 2G (telecom) scam,” Swamy was quoted as saying by news reports.
The file contains correspondence between Chidambaram, then the Finance Minister of India, and Raja between September 2008 and December 2008 and apparently has some bearing on the issue of dilution of shares in Swan Telecom and Unitech Wireless.
“The file has letters, other official records and memos that include the ministers’ views on the permission that Mr Raja granted to Swan and Unitech Wireless to dilute their equity by bringing foreign partners on board,” India’s leading news channel, NDTV, reported.
Swamy also pointed out in the court that his application seeking a CBI probe against Chidambaram is pending before the Supreme Court of India.
