2G rip-off: CBI commences fresh arguments in HC in appeal against acquittals
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CBI commenced arguments afresh in the Delhi High Court on January 14 in its appeal against the acquittal of former Telecom Minister A. Raja and others in the 2G spectrum allocation rip-off case.
However, the arguments by way of videoconferencing earlier than Justice Yogesh Khanna needed to be stopped after solely a quick listening to as a result of connectivity points.
During the transient proceedings, advocate Vijay Aggarwal, showing for a few of the acquitted individuals, instructed the excessive courtroom that round 6,500 pages containing the ultimate arguments of the accused and the CBI earlier than the trial courtroom weren’t discovered in the digital information equipped to him. The listening to will proceed on January 15.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had earlier concluded its submissions on the problem of ‘leave to appeal’, needed to begin arguing afresh as a result of change of choose.
Leave to appeal is a proper permission granted by a courtroom to a celebration to problem a choice in the next courtroom.
Earlier, the case was being heard on a day-to-day foundation by Justice Brijesh Sethi, who retired on November 30 final 12 months and had launched the matter from his board on November 23, 2020 owing to paucity of time.
Before demitting the workplace, Justice Sethi had determined numerous petitions and functions filed by the acquitted people and corporations in the three circumstances, arising out of the 2G rip-off probe, lodged by CBI and ED.
After ending submissions in the CBI’s primary case, the excessive courtroom will take up the ED’s cash laundering case in which additionally all of the accused had been acquitted by the particular courtroom.
A particular courtroom had on December 21, 2017 acquitted Mr. Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others in the CBI and the ED circumstances associated to the rip-off.
Besides Raja and Kanimozhi, the particular courtroom had acquitted former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura; Raja’s erstwhile non-public secretary R.K. Chandolia; Unitech Ltd. MD Sanjay Chandra and three high executives of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) — Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair, in the 2G case filed by the CBI.
Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka and administrators of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd. Asif Balwa and Rajiv Agarwal had been additionally acquitted in the CBI case.
The particular courtroom had additionally acquitted Swan Telecom (P) Ltd.; Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd.; Reliance Telecom Ltd.; movie producer Karim Morani and Director of Kalaignar TV Sharad Kumar in the CBI case.
On the identical day, the particular courtroom additionally acquitted 19 accused, together with Raja, Kanimozhi, DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi’s spouse Dayalu Ammal, Vinod Goenka, Asif Balwa, Karim Morani, P. Amirtham and Sharad Kumar in the ED case.
The particular courtroom had additionally acquitted Essar Group promoters Ravi Kant Ruia and Anshuman Ruia, Loop Telecom promoters I.P. Khaitan and Kiran Khaitan and 4 others in a separate case arising out of the 2G rip-off probe.
On March 19, 2018, the ED approached the High Court difficult the particular courtroom’s order acquitting all of the accused.
A day later, the CBI too challenged in the excessive courtroom the acquittal of the accused in the case.
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