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Delhi HC notices to A Raja, Kanimozhi on ED, CBI appeals in 2G case

Press Trust of India, New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India
Mar 21, 2018 05:04 PM IST

A court on December 21 last year acquitted Raja, Kanimozhi and others in the cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the ED.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday issued a notice to former telecom minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate challenging their acquittal in a money laundering case arising out of the 2G scam.

DMK leader and former Union Minister A Raja and his party colleague and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi being welcomed following their acquittal in 2G Telecom case by a special court upon their arrival at the airport in Chennai.(PTI File Photo)
DMK leader and former Union Minister A Raja and his party colleague and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi being welcomed following their acquittal in 2G Telecom case by a special court upon their arrival at the airport in Chennai.(PTI File Photo)

Justice SP Garg also issued another notice to Raja, Kanimozhi and others on a CBI plea challenging the special court order acquitting them in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case.

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The court said status quo would be maintained with regard to properties attached by the ED in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case.

On March 19, the ED moved the high court challenging a special court order acquitting all the accused in the money laundering case arising out of the 2G scam.

On Tuesday, the CBI too challenged in the high court the acquittal of the accused in the case.

The special court on December 21 last year acquitted Raja, Kanimozhi and others in the cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the ED.

Besides Raja and Kanimozhi, the special court acquitted 17 others, including DMK supremo M Karunanidhi’s wife Dayalu Ammal, Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka of STPL, Asif Balwa and Rajiv Aggarwal of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt. Ltd., film producer Karim Morani, P Amirtham and Director of Kalaignar TV Sharad Kumar in the ED case.

The ED, in its chargesheet, had alleged that 200 crore was paid by Swan Telecom (P) Ltd. (STPL) promoters to the DMK-run Kalaignar TV.

On the same day, the trial court acquitted Raja, Kanimozhi and 15 others, including former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, Raja’s former private secretary R K Chandolia, Swan Telecom promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, Unitech Ltd. MD Sanjay Chandra and three top executives of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group - Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair, in the CBI’s 2G case.

The CBI had alleged that there was a loss of 30,984 crore to the exchequer in allocation of licences for 2G spectrum which were scrapped by the Supreme Court on February 2, 2012.

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