2G chargesheet not to mention loss amount
The CBI is likely to steer clear of number crunching about the loss to the exchequer in the 2G spectrum scam, which had earlier provided for much political wrangling between the government and the Opposition. It may refrain from mentioning any amount as loss to the exchequer in its chargesheet to be filed in the case on March 31.
According to sources, the CBI officials, who gave a presentation of the draft chargesheet before the CBI director A.P. Singh on Thursday, have not mentioned anything about the presumptive loss to the exchequer. Explaining the reason of not mentioning the loss figure in the chargesheet, sources said, “The agency probe is concentrated on criminal conspiracy aspect in the allotment of unified access service (UAS) licences only. And this is the reason that the agency has not mentioned anything about the estimate loss.”
The FIR registered by the CBI in 2G spectrum scam on October 21, 2009, mentioned that the wrongful gains to private companies/persons in the allotment of the UAS licences to a few selected companies by the officials of the department of telecommunications (DoT) was estimated to be more than `22,000 crores.
Sources, however, maintained that the calculated loss could be three times more than what was initially mentioned in the FIR.
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