Former Telecom Minister A Raja andeight others including former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura and threetelecom companies were on Saturday indicted in the
2G spectrum allocation scamin which the CBI filed its first chargesheet, pegging the loss to the exchequerat Rs 30,984 crore.
The companies named in the chargesheet filed in a Delhi court includeReliance Communications, Unitech Wireless and Swan Telecom. A supplementarychargesheet is to be filed later this month in the case that is being monitoredby the Supreme Court.
The chargesheet running into about 80,000 pages was filedbefore Judge OP Saini in the special court constituted exclusively to try thecase that has hit the UPA government politically in less than two years of itsreturn to power.
Charges of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy andcorruption have been levelled against Raja, his Private Secretary RK Chandolia,Behura and Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa.
The CBI said that investigation into issuance of new UnifiedAccess Services Licences and subsequent allocation of 2G Spectrum during2008-09 has established commission of offences under Indian Penal Code and thePrevention of Corruption Act.
Others named in the chargesheet include Vinod Goenka, a directorof Mumbai-based DB Realty, which was also the promoter of Etisalat DB; SanjayChandra, managing director of Gurgaon-based real estate company Unitech andUnitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Pvt Ltd and Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and SurendraPipara, Group Managing Director and two Senior Vice Presidents of Mumbai-basedReliance Telecom Company.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India hadestimated a presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crores in the issuance of 2Gspectrum licenses.
Special Judge O P Saini took cognizance of the CBI chargesheet and issued summons for April 13 against the accused not arrested in the case.
The CBI chargesheet said that Unitech Wireless was the biggest beneficiary in the scam. Unitech Wireless and Swan Telecom were the only two companies ineligible for allocation of 2G spectrum, it said.
Further, Swan Telecom was acting as a front company for Reliance Telecom for getting 2G spectrum, the chargesheet said.
The CBI told the court that Kalaignar TV Pvt Ltd, Cineyug Films, Green House Pvt Ltd and Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd are also under its scrutiny.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter and DMK MP Kanimozhi, his wife Dayaluammal and Sharad Kumar, Managing Director of Kalaignar TV, have 20, 60 and 20 per cent shares in the channel respectively.
The CBI has alleged the money connected with the 2G spectrum allocation had travelled from Balwa's firm to Kalaignar TV through Cineyug Films and Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd.
Asif Balwa and Rajeev Agarwal, directors of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd, were arrested on March 29.
Agarwal was arrested for his alleged role in transferring Rs 200 crore to Kalaignar TV Pvt Ltd through the bank accounts of Cineyug Films Pvt Ltd.
Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of Raja who died in mysterious circumstances last month, was the managing director of Greenhouse Promoters and was quizzed by the CBI.
The CBI had yesterday told the court that the alleged cash transaction between DB Realty and Chennai-based Green House Promoters Pvt Ltd "might have link" to Batcha's death.
In the voluminous charge sheet, 654 documents and names of 125 witnesses have been mentioned.
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