A Raja sent to Tihar jail as CBI custody expires
Former Telecom minister A Raja was on Thursday remanded in judicial custody by a CBI court here in connection with the 2G Spectrum scam.
Special CBI judge OP Saini sent Raja to jail till March 3 at the expiry of his CBI remand.
He will now be languishing in the Tihar jail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the 2G scam, did not seek further custody of the former minister.
Raja advocate Ramesh Gupta urged the court to allow his client to keep his medicines and books in Tihar as well as get home-cooked food, which were granted by the court.
Raja was arrested by the CBI on Feb 2.
The CBI has also arrested Raja’s personal secretary RK Chandolia, former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura and DB Realty promoter Shahid Usman Balwa in the 2G spectrum case.
He was forced to resign as an Union minister in November last year following Opposition pressure after a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the 2G scam estimated at Rs 1.76 lakh crore loss to the country?s exchequer due to wrongful allotment of 2G Spectrum.
Raja is accused of criminal conspiracy and using his office as Telecom Minister to benefit a few telecom operators when 2G spectrum licences were being allocated in 2008 for mobile network.
Swan and Unitech are the two alleged beneficiaries of the spectrum allocation scandal.
ENJOY the STAY, Mr RAJA. Would enjoy his part of SUBSIDY in TIHAR, illegally given by PM on the name of Coalition Dharma. We hope his team of Corrupt Political Pimps, Bureaucrats, Corporates and Politicians joins him soon. Good that he stays in Tihar, SC should cancel all his hearings for a year till he is not ready to spill the beans, so that CBI gets enough time to go behind other LOOTERS. His BAR License should be canceled right away. Thanks SC, Alert Media and S Swamy.