Delhi Court on Saturday charged against former Telecom Minister
A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 15 others including top corporate honchos
in the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam on various counts like criminal
conspiracy, breach of trust, cheating and forgery.
Seventeen
accused have been charged under Section 409 of IPC for alleged criminal
breach of trust which attracts a maximum punishment of life term. The
other charges attract various terms in jail.
Special CBI judge O P
Saini fixed November 11 for commencement of the trial after all the
accused refused top lead guilty to various offences. The framing of
charges may now pave the way for the accused, who have been behind the
bars for several months, to seek bail as the Supreme Court had virtually
embargoed all the courts not to entertain their plea before framing of
charges.
Besides Raja and Kanimozhi, the Judge framed charges
against corporate executives of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's
President Surendra Pipara, Senior Vice President Hari Nair and Managing
Director Gautam Doshi, besides Swan Telecom's promoter Shahid Usman
Balwa, his cousin Asif Balwa, their colleague Rajeev Agarwal and Unitech
Ltd's MD, Sanjay Chandra and DB Realty's MD, Vinod Goenka.
The
Judge said, there was prima facie evidence for framing charges also
against Kalaignar TV's MD, Sharad Kumar, Bollywood film producer Karim
Morani and three telecom firms Reliance Telecom Ltd, Swan Telecom and
Unitech (Tamil Nadu) Wireless Ltd.
Shahid Usman Balwa and other
five co-accused, Vinod Goenka, Rajiv Agarwal, Asif Balwa, Karim Morani
and Sharad Kumar have also been charged with the offence of hatching
criminal conspiracy to file false evidence in judicial proceedings for
showing the bribe trail of 200 crore rupees as a loan transaction.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment