<b>T N Ninan:</b> 'Uncommon nonsense'

Six 'takeaways' from 2G verdict - there was no telecom scam; Raja did no wrong; govt lost no money; it was just wrong public perception; SC was off its rocker; a rogue CAG dreamt fanciful numbers

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
 
So here are six things coming to us as judicial findings, or flowing from them: There was no telecom scam. Andimuthu Raja did nothing wrong. The government lost no money. The whole thing was just wrong public perception. The Supreme Court was off its rocker. And a rogue Comptroller and Auditor General dreamt up fanciful numbers. If we believe those six, here’s what else we have to reckon with:
 
The first-come, first-served policy for giving out scarce radio spectrum had logic