{"id":32980,"date":"2018-10-29T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32980"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:16:48","slug":"scam-or-folklore-on-2g-case-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scam-or-folklore-on-2g-case-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam, or folklore? on 2G case verdict:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/scam-or-folklore\/article22178907.ece\"><strong>Scam, or folklore? on 2G case verdict<\/strong><\/a><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2G acquittals call into question the political and investigative narratives of the past decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions Raised?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is illegal from the point of view of administrative law may not necessarily be an offence from a criminal court\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court declared in 2012 that the allocation of\u00a02G spectrum\u00a0by the Congress-led UPA government was illegal and an arbitrary exercise of power<\/li>\n<li>It went on to cancel all 122 telecom licences allotted to companies in early 2008 during the tenure of A. Raja as Communications Minister<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the trial court\u2019s\u00a0<em>en masse<\/em>acquittal of all those arraigned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the 2G spectrum allocation case, the claim that this was the biggest scam in India\u2019s history lies in tatters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Every ground rejected by SC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every ground that the CBI had adduced to prove that Mr. Raja manipulated the first-come, first-served system to favour Swan Telecom and Unitech Wireless, among others, and helped them make a windfall profit by offloading their stakes, has been\u00a0rejected by Special Judge O.P. Saini<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immediate Fallout<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The immediate fallout is that the DravidaMunnetraKazhagam, to which Mr. Raja belongs, and its national ally, the Congress, will at last be in a position to shake off the perception that they were irredeemably beset by corruption<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lessons to be learnt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a lesson for everyone in the long 2G saga:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public perception and audit reports cannot be the sole basis for criminal trials<\/li>\n<li>Investigating agencies must carefully sift the available material before deciding to prosecute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eliminating graft from public life is not only about making allegations stick during election<\/p>\n<p>time, but also about diligent investigation and efficient prosecution<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scam, or folklore? on 2G case verdict:\u00a0 Context 2G acquittals call into question the political and investigative narratives of the past decade. Questions Raised? What is illegal from the point of view of administrative law may not necessarily be an offence from a criminal court\u2019s perspective. Backdrop The Supreme Court declared in 2012 that the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scam-or-folklore-on-2g-case-verdict\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scam, or folklore? on 2G case verdict:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704892127},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}