Govt Didn't Take Step To Prevent 2G Scam : SC

The Supreme Court today expressed its anguish that the stand of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh favouring “auctioning” of 2G spectrum was ignored and no no timely action was taken to prevent the scam.

A bench of justices G S Singhvi and H L Dattu criticised the government for its handling of the situation ahead of 2G spectrum allocation in which the policy of “auction” was given a go bye and telecom ministry under A Raja adopted the first-come-first served policy.

The Bench said even when the then Telecom Minister did not agree with the Prime Minister for auctioning the “scarce” spectrum and went ahead with issuing Letters of Intent (LoIS), no timely action was taken to prevent the situation which has arisen today and the matter reached the courts.

The bench was hearing the bail pleas of jailed Managing Director of Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Pvt Ltd Sanjay Chandra and Swan Telecom’s Director Vinod Goenka in the case.


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