The taped conversations record him asking Radia: 'My case is cleared?' She replied: 'Yeah, your case was cleared last night itself.

Raja seems to have forgotten what he told Radia on May 24, 2009. I am not a fool to believe a third force can offer a ministerial berth other than my leader Kalaignar ( Karunanidhi), the PM and Sonia Gandhi,' he said. Nothing is surreptitious in the conversation. (I) presume that the scripts are correct. 'I've not heard the conversation, but I've seen the scripts. A day after he dismissed the existence of the tapes with arrogant flourish, Raja on Friday defended himself but didn't deny that the conversations took place. 'The man in the middle of the raging storm remains unfazed. I don't think if somebody cannot see the racket that's going on. You have corporate lobbyists involved in the allocation of 2G spectrum. 'Tearing into the Congress's defence, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said: ' You have corporate lobbyists involved in the process of allocation of portfolios. 'If it was unauthorised, then it calls for very serious action against those people who have been misusing their licence conditions and tapping people's phones illegally and then distributing it around for corporate advantage. Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari said: 'The minister is the victim of the corporate war? The first thing that has to be established is whether this tapping was authorised or not.

The ruling party, instead, put up a brazen defence of Raja. Headlines Today has dug out two of these reports filed in June and July 2009.ĭespite two its own agencies investigating a senior minister and finding evidence against him, the government appears to be dithering on acting against Raja. Explore nira radia profile at Times of India for photos, videos and latest news of nira radia. The I-T department, on its part, has been filing monthly status reports of its probe since August 2008, but they have been gathering dust. nira radia News: Latest and Breaking News on nira radia. The executive branch: This section of the Central Government comprises the President, the Vice President and the Cabinet Ministers and the Independent Executive.

A criminal case was filed under Section 120 B of the IPC with Sections 13 (2) and 13 (1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. RC DAI 2009 A 0045) was lodged in the case on October 21, 2009. The CBI sleuths had raided Raja's telecom ministry office in October 2009 following the 2G spectrum sale.Īn FIR (No. The letter was sent by the I-T department to the CBI at a time when the investigating agency was already probing Raja.

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