{"id":13497,"date":"2011-09-30T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2011-09-30T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:38:49","slug":"chidambaram-favoured-2g-auction-cbi-tells-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/chidambaram-favoured-2g-auction-cbi-tells-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Chidambaram favoured 2G auction, CBI tells Supreme court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CBI2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13498\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/chidambaram-favoured-2g-auction-cbi-tells-supreme-court\/cbi-34\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/CBI2.png?fit=240%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,199\" 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=\"CBI2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/CBI2.png?fit=150%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/CBI2.png?fit=240%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13498\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/CBI2.png?resize=240%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/CBI2.png?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/CBI2.png?resize=150%2C124&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The CBI on Thursday strongly defended home minister P Chidambaram, saying that the finance ministry under him had consistently favoured &#8220;auction and indexisation&#8221; of 2G spectrum price.<\/p>\n<p>An apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice AK Ganguly was told that the &#8220;finance ministry took a consistent stand and never deviated from its position of auction and indexisation of 2G spectrum price (from 2001 top 2008)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Defending Chidambaram on the allegation of not taking a call on the cancellation of 2G licences, CBI senior counsel KK Venugopal told the court: &#8220;It is not an easy matter to decide. 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