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Solicitor
general to answer apex court queries on PM
Wednesday November 17, 2010 07:20:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium will Thursday have to address
many of the Supreme Court's queries related to "inaction and
silence" on the part of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on a plea
for prosecuting then telecom minister A. Raja for lapses in the 2G
spectrum scam.
Former MP Subramanian Swamy submitted the application to the prime
minister Nov 29, 2008 seeking sanction to launch criminal
proceedings against Raja under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
A report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted
the government for irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation,
causing the exchequer a loss of Rs.1.76 trillion ($40 billion).
The solicitor general Thursday will have to explain to the court
the delay on the part of the prime minister.
Gopal Subramanium will have to satisfy the court on why it took
the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) 11 months for filing a
first information report (FIR) in the scam.
The solicitor general will also address the question of "inaction
and silence" of the prime minister in replying to Swamy's
application on Raja.
He will also have to answer why the companies that were not
eligible for the grant of 2G licences were awarded the same.
Justice G.S. Singhvi has already stated that Swamy's application
did not suffer from any vagueness.
The court will also look into the question whether the three
months' period to decide on an application seeking permission to
launch criminal proceedings against a tainted union minister
should commence from the date when the plea is filed or from the
date when a CBI probe into the matter gets over.
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