Deposing before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G, former DG, Audit (Post and Telecom) R P Singh said he had met Joshi at his residence.
Singh said during his interaction with CAG officials, including him, the loss figure had come up.
Singh has claimed that while the loss figure calculated by him was Rs 36000 crore, the CAG final report mentioned Rs 1.76 lakh crore as presumptive loss.
Some BJP members in the Committee claimed that in his deposition Singh refuted reports which quoted him as saying that Joshi tried to influence the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation.
Joshi has dimissed allegations that he tried to influence the outcome of the 2G report, saying these were aimed at maligning the institutions of CAG and PAC.
In response to a volley of questions as to why did he not report his disagreement on the issue of presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore, Singh said though he had met CAG Vinod Rai several times during the preparation of the report and even before its finalisation, he did not get a chance to "reveal" his mind on the issue.
He, however, added that he had expressed his disagreement in writing to his immediate superiors, Deputy CAG Rekha Gupta (now retired) and R B Sinha.
Regarding the loss of Rs 36000 crore calculated by him in his version of the report submitted to the CAG headquarters, Singh claimed that the loss related to the excess spectrum allocated to the service providers from 2001 onwards.
He said it was calculated based on the recommendations of TRAI which said that the excess spectrum could be charged taking the rates of 3G spectrum auction.
He told the JPC that his loss figure was only for not charging the excess spectrum and not for allocation of 2G licences and spectrum.
Singh also contended that the government auditor was not mandated to examine the policy decisions taken by the government and that the practice of calculating presumptive loss did not exist anywhere in the world.
