{"id":12694,"date":"2011-08-11T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=12694"},"modified":"2011-08-11T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:10:56","slug":"lawyer-strike-brings-2g-proceedings-to-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/lawyer-strike-brings-2g-proceedings-to-halt","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer strike brings 2G proceedings to halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/A.-Raja.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/lawyer-strike-brings-2g-proceedings-to-halt\/a-raja-5\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/A.-Raja.png?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"299,169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A.-Raja\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/A.-Raja.png?fit=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/A.-Raja.png?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12695\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/A.-Raja.png?resize=299%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/A.-Raja.png?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/08\/A.-Raja.png?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>A group of lawyers Thursday barged into a court where the 2G scam case was being heard, asking that the proceedings be stopped and the bar association strike be observed.<\/p>\n<p>Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge O.P. Saini, hearing the defense arguments of Hari Nair, one of the Reliance executives and an accused, said: &#8220;The defence lawyers should continue after 2 p.m.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court proceedings came to a halt thereafter as the defence lawyers trooped out.Meanwhile, the court asked the accused in the court room if they wanted to submit anything. However, their arguments were deemed informal.<\/p>\n<p>A. Raja, former communications minister and prime accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam, said: &#8220;I know my role as a minister and my limitations. The letter I wrote to the prime minister was used as a policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not a sole decision. The letter was also shown to the then solicitor general G.E. Vahanvati. The solicitor general went through the paper and said it was transparent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following Raja&#8217;s arrest, Vahanvati was quizzed by the CBI about his alleged legal opinion justifying the &#8220;first come first served&#8221; policy adopted by Raja in the allocation of 2G spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI has said Raja&#8217;s decision as telecom minister in 2008 to issue radio spectrum to companies at a mere Rs.1,659 crore ($350 million) for a pan-India operation had caused the exchequer losses worth thousands of crores of rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of lawyers Thursday barged into a court where the 2G scam case was being heard, asking that the proceedings be stopped and the bar association strike be observed. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge O.P. 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