This Article is From Aug 29, 2011

Bail pleas of 2G scam accused in Supreme Court today

Bail pleas of 2G scam accused in Supreme Court today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to take up the bail pleas of Sanjay Chandra, MD of Unitech Wireless and Swan Telecom's Director Vinod Goenka in connection with the 2G spectrum scam.

Both are accused of forgery and cheating and criminal conspiracy with former telecom minister A Raja who is in Tihar Jail since February. Also, charges of cheating, forgery, criminal conspiracy and corruption have been levelled against Raja's private secretary R K Chandolia, former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura and Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa.

Their bail pleas were rejected by the Delhi High Court in May. The Supreme Court had already issued notice to CBI seeking its response on granting bail to them.

The CBI had, in its first chargesheet, accused Raja, eight other people well as three companies of causing a loss of Rs 30,984 crore to the exchequer.

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