A Raja faces CBI questioning for 6 hrs on day 2

Former Telecom minister A Raja was questioned for the second straight day by the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) in connection with the 2G Spectrum allocation scam.

He was grilled by CBI sleuths for six hours at the agency?s headquarters here on Saturday.

?I am cooperating with the investigative agency,? Raja told waiting reporters after the questioning.

He, however, refused to divulge any further.

Raja was questioned for nine hours on Friday.

“I cooperated with the investigating agency,” Raja said Friday night after his interrogation.

CBI is tight-lipped on the questioning by the anti-corruption wing of the agency.

The beleaguered DMK leader after being summoned by the investigating agency on Monday, flew in here on Wednesday from Chennai to appear for grilling for his alleged involvement in allocating telecom spectrums to the private providers that cost the government nearly Rs 1.74 lakh crore.

The CBI had grilled corporate lobbyist Niira Radia at her farmhouse in south Delhi on Wednesday in connection with the 2G scam.

Raja, who was forced to quit the central cabinet after the Opposition parties mounted pressure on Government for his head and demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the scam, said he would not move for anticipatory bail and face the CBI and cooperate with the authorities.

He said he would come clean and alleged the media was “overplaying.”