New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Monday said the bail pleas of R K Chandolia, former personal secretary to then ex-telecom minister A Raja, and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura in irregular allotment of 2G spectrum case would be heard by a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and H L Dattu. This may raise hopes of the two accused as the bench of Justices Singhvi and Dattu had granted bail to five corporate heads - Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra, Reliance officials Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair and Swan Telecom director Vinod Goenka - in the 2G scam case. When the bail pleas of the two public servants came up before a bench of Justices Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya on Monday, additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran, on behalf of the CBI, opposed relief to the duo alleging that their case was different from the corporate executives. The CBI's case against Chandolia and Behura was that they were instrumental in hatching the conspiracy with the Raja and apprehended that releasing them on bail could allow them to influence the witnesses. The bench said, "In cases where accused tamper with witnesses, the court can always cancel the bail. Is there anything ...
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New Dehli: A special CBI court on Thursday granted bail to RK Chandolia, former private secretary to ex-telecom minister A Raja, in 2G spectrum allocation scam case. Earlier, the agency had claimed that A Raja and two ex-bureaucrats R K Chandolia and Siddharth Behura were the "core sector" of conspiracy, and stand on a "different footing" from those granted bail in the case. Special CBI Judge O P Saini released Chandolia on bail while noting that his case "cannot be equated" with that of Raja and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura. The judge agreed with the contentions of Chandolia's counsel Vijay Aggarwal, who said that his client was not having any "independent powers" on his own and there was no allegation that he himself accepted any bribe. Noting that 10 months have elapsed since he was taken into custody and that 11 accused are out on bail, the court said, "Accused R K Chandolia was only the private secretary to the then Minister of Communication and Information Technology (A Raja) and was not having any independent powers on his own...co-accused A Raja was political head of the Department of Telecommunication whereas co-accused Siddharth Behura was its ...
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