Court acquits all accused including former Min Raja, Kanimojhi in 2G Spectrum case

New Delhi, Dec 21: A Delhi Court on Thursday passed an order acquitting all the accused including former Telecom Minister A Raja and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi in the alleged multi-thousand-crore-rupee 2G spectrum scandal case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Directorate of Enforcement (ED).

It was a scam related to the granting of 2G spectrum licence allocations in the year of 2007-08 which according to a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India caused a loss of Rs 1.76-lakh-crore. 
The alleged scam was on the issuance of licences and allocation of 2G spectrum by the Department of Telecom occurred during the Congress-led UPA Government’s first tenure in 2008 but the same was widely reported in 2010 following the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the trial in the case began in 2011 after the court had framed charges against the accused in the CBI’s case. 
Accused persons in these cases had denied the allegations leveled against them by the CBI and the ED.
Special Judge had framed charges against the accused in October 2011 under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act dealing with offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, using as genuine fake documents, abusing official position, criminal misconduct by public servant and taking bribe.
CBI Special Judge OP Saini on Thursday, after hearing the arguments on behalf of the Prosecution and Defence Counsel, passed the judgements of acquittal in the separate cases lodged by the CBI and the ED in the scam which rattled the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led UPA Government. In the aforesaid allegation two cases have been filed by the CBI against the accused and the other one filed by the ED.
CBI Special Judge said, “The chargesheet of the instant case is based mainly on misreading, selective reading, nonreading and out of context reading of the official record”.
CBI Special Judge, after conclusions of the arguments on behalf of the Prosecution and Defense Counsel, acquitted all the accused, including then Telecom Minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimohi and 15 others alleged in both the cases filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The court further directed all the acquitted person to furnish a bail bond of Rs 5-lakh each to ensure their presence in a higher appellate court if the verdict was challenged. UNI