Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Saturday sought prosecution of Home Minister P Chidambaram in a Delhi court for alleged corruption and breach of trust in the 2G spectrum case.
“The evidence brings on record commission of offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, for which A Raja has already been charged by this court,” he told special CBI Judge O P Saini, pressing his private complaint that Chidambaram be made an accused in the case.
Swamy has completed the recording of his evidence and statement but is yet to produce witnesses, including CBI officials, something he had earlier claimed would support his allegations. In his deposition, Swamy said Chidambaram was also “guilty of breach of trust of national security”, as he had not disclosed that UAE-based Etisalat and Norway-based Telenor, to which Swan Telecom and Unitech Wireless had sold their shares, were blacklisted.
“I have also brought on record evidence to show that Chidambaram is guilty of breach of trust in the question of national security for not disclosing that Etisalat and Telenor had been blacklisted by a home ministry advisory,” he said.
The court has listed Swamy’s application for arguments on January 21.
According to Swamy, the documents showed that the then Finance Minister, Chidambaram, had acted in “connivance and collusion” with former Telecom Minister, A Raja, in pricing the spectrum licence and allowing Swan Telecom and Unitech Wireless to earn windfall profits by offloading their shares to Etisalat and Telenor, respectively, after getting the Unified Access Services (UAS) licenses.
He placed on record certified copies of the minutes of a January 30, 2008 meeting between Chidambaram and Raja, along with those of another meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the two ministers. He also submitted the certified copy of a letter Chidambaram wrote to the prime minister on January 15, 2008, a December 21, 2010 communication to him from the Prime Minister’s office and the controversial March 25, 2011 finance ministry’s memo to the PMO.
