An over 80,000 page first charge sheet with annexures will be filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) tomorrow in the 2G spectrum scam case against former Telecom Minister A Raja, some of his close aides and a couple of real estate companies for allegedly defrauding the exchequer and entering into a criminal conspiracy for securing telecom licences.
Sources said the name of a big industrial house having alleged links with some beneficiaries of the allocation scam may also figure in the first set of charges. The second set of charges may be levelled in the supplementary charge sheet which is likely to be filed later this month.
The CBI has informed the Supreme Court that telecom companies - Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom - were used as front companies by established telecom players to get 2G spectrum illegally during the tenure of Raja.
The agency had said in the court that Raja will face charges of "cheating, forgery, and corruption".
The CBI submitted before the court that Swan and Loop hid details about their companies to get spectrum and they will be facing charges of "cheating" and "criminal conspiracy".
The agency had told the court that there was evidence of "forgery" in altering of first-come-first-serve policy to allow some companies to get 2G spectrum during Raja's tenure.
The CBI sources, however, said the extent of loss to the state exchequer may not be included in this charge sheet as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) was yet to complete the process of ascertaining the loss on allocation of spectrum to all operators between 2001 and 2008.
The charge sheet will be filed in the special court of Justice OP Saini.
The CBI had last year informed the apex court that it would be filing the first set of charge sheet by March 31 which will include the investigations made by the agency as well as by the Enforcement Directorate in the case. But it sought two more days time in the light of some new developments.
The agency had arrested brother of Shahid Balwa, Asif and Rajiv Agrawal both promoters of Kusegaon fruit and vegetables private limited.
