It wasn’t Andimuthu Raja’s decision alone. The Prime Minister and the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram were co-architects of the 2G licence-cum-spectrum allocation.

This, in essence, is the submission of Norwegian telecom company Telenor whose 2G licences were cancelled by the Supreme Court on 2 February due to Raja’s alleged hijacking of the policy. Telenor, which is the joint venture partner with Unitech in Uninor, has filed a review petition in the top court seeking a restoration of its licences using this argument.

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Is Kapil Sibal’s ministry seeking to solve the 2G mess or compound it further? With the Supreme Court holding the government guilty of wrongly allotting 122 licences and spectrum when the telecom ministry was run by Andimuthu Raja, the UPA seems keen to fight this political embarrassment by spreading the blame further back to the NDA regime.

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Special CBI Judge O P Saini on February 4, 2012 gave a clean chit to the Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who was Finance Minister at the time of controversial allocation of 2G spectrum in 2008. Click here to read the entire verdict..

The Supreme Court of India’s order setting a limit of four months for deciding the issue of sanction for prosecution of corrupt public servants. The apex court blamed the PMO for sitting on Subramanian Swamy’s plea to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for granting sanction to prosecute Raja. Click here to read the judgement…

The Supreme Court has asked the CBI to file status reports on its ongoing probe into the 2G spectrum allocation case to the Central Vigilance Commission. Click here to read the judgement…