Let us not be misled by the arrests of former telecom minister A Raja, his former personal secretary R K Chandolia and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura (“Raja, two aides arrested”, January 3). Had the UPA government got its own way, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) could never have laid its hands on Raja. The Congress party and the government need not seek the high moral ground of letting the law take its course. It was because the Supreme Court intervened and the public and media pressured that the government could not make the CBI act in this case the way the investigating agency acted in cases involving Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati. These arrests would matter little if the case is not brought to its logical conclusion within a reasonable time frame.
M C Joshi, Lucknow
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