{"id":7366,"date":"2010-11-18T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2010-11-18T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:35:52","slug":"supreme-court-frowns-on-pms-silence-over-raja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-frowns-on-pms-silence-over-raja","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court frowns on PM&#8217;s silence over Raja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/A.-Raja.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7367\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-frowns-on-pms-silence-over-raja\/a-raja\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/11\/A.-Raja.jpg?fit=261%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"261,193\" 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\/2010\/11\/A.-Raja.jpg?fit=150%2C110&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/11\/A.-Raja.jpg?fit=261%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7367\" title=\"A. Raja\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/A.-Raja.jpg?resize=261%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/11\/A.-Raja.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/11\/A.-Raja.jpg?resize=150%2C110&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Tuesday took exception to the 15-month \u201csilence\u201d of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on former MP Subramanian Swamy\u2019s plea seeking sanction to initiate proceedings against then telecom minister A. Raja over the 2G spectrum row.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister could have said that the material on record was insufficient and declined the sanction, said the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly.<\/p>\n<p>The court referred to the \u201cinaction and silence\u201d of the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Swamy submitted an application to the prime minister Nov 29, 2008 seeking permission to initiate proceedings against Raja under the Prevention of Corruption Act.<\/p>\n<p>It was only March 19 this year that Swamy received a reply from the prime minister stating that since the Central Bureau of Investigation was probing the matter, it was premature to decide on his application seeking sanction to proceed against Raja.<\/p>\n<p>The court said that three months may not be sufficient to decide on such an application. But 15 months was too long a period.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium said that these three months commenced from the date the investigating agency completed its probe and not from the date the application was made.<\/p>\n<p>The court also took exception to the language used in the prime minister\u2019s March 19, 2010 letter to Swamy, particularly the use of the word \u201cpremature\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It could have been said that the material made available by Swamy was not sufficient to arrive at a decision but instead it said that the application was premature, the court said<\/p>\n<p>The court asked on what basis was the application found to be premature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis right to ask for sanction is a right under the law given to citizens in democracy. You say that his right is not mature,\u201d the court noted.<\/p>\n<p>For the prime minister to say that it is premature \u201cis troubling us\u201d, the judges observed. \u201cPremature means there is a maturity level or maturity area,\u201d the court said.<\/p>\n<p>Subramaium told the court that after the resignation of Raja Sunday, Swamy needed no sanction to initiate any proceedings against him.<\/p>\n<p>Swamy assailed the prime minister\u2019s March 2010 reply, saying the prime minister was supposed to apply his mind \u201cindependently and impartially\u201d on the material placed before him by the applicant in deciding the question of grant of sanction either way.<\/p>\n<p>He said the prime minister could not have ordered a probe by the CBI to get the matter further investigated before deciding on the application for sanction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Tuesday took exception to the 15-month \u201csilence\u201d of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on former MP Subramanian Swamy\u2019s plea seeking sanction to initiate proceedings against then telecom minister A. 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