Swamy seeks cancellation of 2G licences
Janata Party president and former law minister Subramanian Swamy, who already has filed a complaint in a special court here for prosecution of former communications minister A. Raja in the 2G scam case, on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court with a fresh petition for cancellation of all the 122 2G licences.
Mr Swamy at the same time sought a direction to the government to have fresh auction of the 2G spectrum by allowing all the “eligible” applicants from among the 575 parties, which had applied for participation in the bid by October 1, 2007 — the final cut-off date fixed by department of telecom — to participate in the fresh auction.
Terming the advancing of the cut-off date to September 25, 2007 under alleged instruction by Mr Raja in a post-facto decision of January 10, 2008, Mr Swamy said by this “single stroke” decision, he had kept 343 applicants out of the race.
This only had allowed 232 parties to participate in the auction and “majority” of the 122 of them issued letters of intent, precisely 85, even did not fulfil the eligibility criteria, the petition said, adding that the post-facto alteration in “first-come-first-serve policy were made by flouting every canon of financial propriety, rules and procedure without any valid and cogent reason.”
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