A Delhi court today reserved its order for December 8 on Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy's plea seeking permission to examine senior CBI officials and others to establish erstwhile Finance Minister and present Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's role in the 2G scam.
Swamy told Special CBI Judge O P Saini that he would like to examine senior CBI officials and other government servants to prove that Chidambaram had taken a joint decision with former Telecom Minister A Raja regarding fixing the price for the 2G spectrum.
Chidambaram, as the then Finance Minister, had permitted Swan Telecom and Unitech, who had secured the licences, to sell their shares to foreign companies, he claimed.
"I have made out a prima facie case that the fixing of spectrum price was jointly decided by the two ministers (Raja and Chidambaram) and the permission granted to sell shares (to foreign companies Dubai-based Etisalat and Norway-based Telenor) was not in accordance with law," Swamy said.
He said Chidambaram had written two letters, one to the Prime Minister and other to Raja, on the fixation of spectrum price.
"The then Finance Minister had written a letter to the Prime Minister saying he (Chidambaram) was the one who has to decide the price (of spectrum). The second letter was written to Raja that lets meet and decide (the spectrum price)," he said.
Swamy said even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said that Chidambaram and Raja had decided on the spectrum price.
