{"id":22006,"date":"2012-07-25T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=22006"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T07:03:10","slug":"jpc-questions-cbi-for-showing-leniency-to-pm-and-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/jpc-questions-cbi-for-showing-leniency-to-pm-and-chidambaram","title":{"rendered":"JPC questions CBI for showing leniency to PM and Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leniency shown by the <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI)<\/strong><\/span> to <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Attorney-General Goolam Vahanvati, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and the former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran<\/span><\/strong><\/span>, and its clear reluctance to investigate their roles in the 2G scam, on Tuesday prompted members of the <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Joint Parliamentary Committee(JPC)<\/strong><\/span> to call for the immediate arrest of Mr. Maran. They also asked for interrogation of both the AG and Mr. Chidambaram.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The CBI, under the Supreme Court\u2019s directions, has been tasked with investigating the spectrum scam, starting from 2001. CBI Director A.P. Singh admitted to the JPC that a genuine probe, in spite of the agency filing an FIR on October 21, 2009, was launched only after the court\u2019s December 16, 2010 directions. Following this, the CBI arrested ex-Telecom Minister A. Raja in February 2011 and filed its charge sheets in April and October.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0But, blowing a hole in the investigation, <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta<\/strong><\/span> questioned why the CBI, in its April 2, 2011 charge sheet, said no discussion took place between Mr. Raja and Mr. Vahanvati when the AG himself, in response to an<span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong> RTI<\/strong><\/span> application, had admitted to a meeting with Mr. Raja and<span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong> Pranab Mukherjee<\/strong> <\/span>in the first week of December. The CBI\u2019s response was that it had no evidence of the meeting at the time of its filing the charge sheet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Asked why the CBI believed that Mr. Vahanvati was innocent despite his having approved the January 10, 2008 press release which included an illegal advancement of the cut-off date, and why the AG had not been questioned over manipulation of the first come, first served criterion, which was also included in the same press release, the CBI insisted that it was not the AG who gave the order.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Questioned by Mr. Dasgupta about the clean chit given to Mr. Chidambaram, who was Finance Minister during the period the 2G scam occurred, the CBI said this was because his views were similar to those expressed by the then Finance Secretary, D. Subbarao, who had opposed Mr. Raja\u2019s spectrum allocation methodology. Based on Dr. Subbarao\u2019s statement to the CBI, the agency advised the court that there was no need to interrogate Mr Chidambaram.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Reminding the CBI that the <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC) Act<\/strong> <\/span>defines corruption as abuse of office, irrespective of financial gain, by a public servant to cause an unlawful gain to any individual, senior <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>BJP leader Yashwant Sinha<\/strong><\/span> asked why the CBI gave the Prime Minister a clean chit on grounds that he was<span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong> \u201cmisled\u201d<\/strong><\/span> by Mr. Raja.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Mr. Sinha highlighted the detailed letters written by Mr. Raja to the Prime Minister apprising him of his actions, which the Prime Minister acknowledged (he even advised Mr. Raja to hold a press conference to clear media misunderstandings), as well as the detailed PMO notings on spectrum pricing. He asked why the CBI believed that the Prime Minister was so naive as to quietly withdraw all his<span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong> \u201cconcerns\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>about Mr. Raja\u2019s spectrum pricing methodology just on a single written assurance by the latter that he was following policy. To this, the CBI maintained that it had not seen the PMO files.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The CBI\u2019s status report on its <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2G investigation<\/strong><\/span>, which was presented to the JPC members, also raised eyebrows. Members questioned why the CBI, following the CAG report and the Supreme Court\u2019s directions, had arrested and jailed Mr. Raja based on suspicion \u2014 that too much before filing charge sheets \u2014 while it had refused to arrest Mr. Maran even after finding him guilty in its report. 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