Dec. 15: Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday moved a designated CBI court seeking prosecution of former telecom minister A. Raja in the 2G scam case in which he wants to be appointed as the prosecutor.
Filing a private complaint in the court of Special Judge Pradeep Chaddah, Swamy made a three-fold prayer which included that his complaint be taken cognisance of and Raja be summoned. After hearing Swamy, who made the arguments for 30 minutes himself, the court reserved till January 7 its order on whether Swamy’s private complaint is maintainable.
“I am fixing the matter for pronouncement of the order on the maintainability of your private complaint on January 7, 2011,” said additional sessions judge Chaddha. Swamy also referred to CBI’s communication to him, saying, “Though an FIR has been filed in the scam, no person has been named as an accused. “This is the reason which forced me to take legal recourse by filing a private complaint,” Swamy contended.
Pressing the court to act on his complaint, Swamy argued that the judge should take cognisance of the massive scam to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore in the allocation of 2G spectrum to various ineligible operators.
The judge sought clarifications from him on the maintainability of his prayers in the case.