New Delhi, Feb. 4 : The one man committee of retired Supreme court judge, Justice Shivraj V. Patil, has found that there were procedural lapses in formulation of spectrum allocation policies and issuance of new licences since the NDA regime in 2001 till 2008 when the 2G scam hit the headlines, according to selective excerpts of the report released on Friday.
The telecom minister, Mr Kapil Sibal, said that the department will forward the finding of the report to the CBI for its investigation.
This could mean that after the former telecom minister, A. Raja, ministers in NDA regime could also come under the scanner of the investigating agencies. The report has also outlined as procedural lapses two decisions for which Mr Raja has come into trouble: to arbitrarily change the cut off date for receiving application for new 2G licences in 2007 and changing the first come first serve policy.
Mr Sibal said that the committee has concluded that the first come, first serve policy adopted by NDA regime in 2003 was against this cabinet decision.