Former Telecom Minister Jailed

Former telecom minister and DMK leader A Raja has challenged Vinod Rai, ex government auditor, to a debate on the allocation of 2G spectrum, billed as one of India's biggest corruption scams. Mr Raja was acquitted in the case by a trial court last month.

Former Telecom Minister A Raja, who spent 15 months in jail, is ready to go public his version of one of India's biggest corruption scandals. The 53-year-old's account of the scam that forced his resignation has been been cleared by leaders of his party, the DMK, and is now being finalised by his publishers for release in November.

Sanjay Chandra, the Managing Director of Unitech, should be jailed again for attempting to interfere with the investigation against him, the CBI has said in the Supreme Court. Mr Chandra is one of five corporate executives accused in the telecom scam, worth Rs 1.76 lakh crore according to the government's auditor. He has been charged with conspirac...

After getting a hero's welcome in Chennai on Friday, former Telecom Minister A Raja is visiting his constituency Nilgiris, for two days starting today. Not surprisingly, he got a rousing welcome in Coimbatore too, from where he travelled on road to his constituency.

After 15 months in jail, former telecom minister A Raja is back at home. Dinner for 200 people was organized at his home in Delhi for a grand welcome for the man accused of crafting and implementing India's biggest scam.

After spending nearly 15 months in jail, former Telecom Minister A Raja was granted bail today. The judge accepted that Mr Raja should be treated at par with 13 others accused of conspiring with him in the telecom scam. They have all been granted bail already. The judge rejected the CBI's argument that Mr Raja could try to influence witnesses to...

The man who allegedly designed and implemented India's biggest scam, A Raja, has been granted bail. The former telecom minister has spent 15 months in jail for the telecom swindle, also referred to as the 2G scam for the sort of airwaves that are at the heart of the controversy.

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

He is the face of the massive 2G Telecom Scam. Reams of newsprint, much airtime, many headlines have been used detailing how A Raja allegedly masterminded the country's biggest swindle; he is accused of giving away licenses and spectrum at throwaway prices. A resident of Tihar jail for about 15 months now, the former Telecom Minister has finally go...

Kanimozhi, the Rajya Sabha MP who spent six months in jail, has asked the Delhi High Court to drop the charges that led to her arrest in the telecom scam. Her lawyers say that there is no evidence that she conspired with the others being tried for the swindle, including her party's A Raja, the former telecom minister who is still in jail.

A former telecom department official has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail for forging letters in the name of the then Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and H D Deve Gowda to get a transfer to Sagar in Madhya Pradesh where his family was staying.

The Supreme Court today granted interim bail till January 16 to former Union Minister Sukh Ram who had surrendered and had been sent to jail to serve a three-year term in connection with a telecom scam in 1993.

Just two days after his counsel told the Patiala House court that former Telecom Minister Sukh Ram was in a coma, the 86-year-old is being taken to jail in an ambulance.

For the record, he executed the first official telecom scam in the country. Fifteen years on, the law finally caught up with former Telecom Minister Sukhram as a Delhi court today sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment for accepting a bribe of Rs three lakh and showing undue favour to a private firm in 1996.

Former telecom minister and DMK leader A Raja has challenged Vinod Rai, ex government auditor, to a debate on the allocation of 2G spectrum, billed as one of India's biggest corruption scams. Mr Raja was acquitted in the case by a trial court last month.

Former Telecom Minister A Raja, who spent 15 months in jail, is ready to go public his version of one of India's biggest corruption scandals. The 53-year-old's account of the scam that forced his resignation has been been cleared by leaders of his party, the DMK, and is now being finalised by his publishers for release in November.

Sanjay Chandra, the Managing Director of Unitech, should be jailed again for attempting to interfere with the investigation against him, the CBI has said in the Supreme Court. Mr Chandra is one of five corporate executives accused in the telecom scam, worth Rs 1.76 lakh crore according to the government's auditor. He has been charged with conspirac...

After getting a hero's welcome in Chennai on Friday, former Telecom Minister A Raja is visiting his constituency Nilgiris, for two days starting today. Not surprisingly, he got a rousing welcome in Coimbatore too, from where he travelled on road to his constituency.

After 15 months in jail, former telecom minister A Raja is back at home. Dinner for 200 people was organized at his home in Delhi for a grand welcome for the man accused of crafting and implementing India's biggest scam.

After spending nearly 15 months in jail, former Telecom Minister A Raja was granted bail today. The judge accepted that Mr Raja should be treated at par with 13 others accused of conspiring with him in the telecom scam. They have all been granted bail already. The judge rejected the CBI's argument that Mr Raja could try to influence witnesses to...

The man who allegedly designed and implemented India's biggest scam, A Raja, has been granted bail. The former telecom minister has spent 15 months in jail for the telecom swindle, also referred to as the 2G scam for the sort of airwaves that are at the heart of the controversy.

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

Will A Raja finally get bail today? After 15 months in jail, the former Telecom Minister's fate will be decided today by the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court trying the 2G case. This is the first time since his arrest in February 2011 that Mr Raja has applied for bail. Within hours of the Supreme Court granting bail to former Tel...

He is the face of the massive 2G Telecom Scam. Reams of newsprint, much airtime, many headlines have been used detailing how A Raja allegedly masterminded the country's biggest swindle; he is accused of giving away licenses and spectrum at throwaway prices. A resident of Tihar jail for about 15 months now, the former Telecom Minister has finally go...

Kanimozhi, the Rajya Sabha MP who spent six months in jail, has asked the Delhi High Court to drop the charges that led to her arrest in the telecom scam. Her lawyers say that there is no evidence that she conspired with the others being tried for the swindle, including her party's A Raja, the former telecom minister who is still in jail.

A former telecom department official has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail for forging letters in the name of the then Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and H D Deve Gowda to get a transfer to Sagar in Madhya Pradesh where his family was staying.

The Supreme Court today granted interim bail till January 16 to former Union Minister Sukh Ram who had surrendered and had been sent to jail to serve a three-year term in connection with a telecom scam in 1993.

Just two days after his counsel told the Patiala House court that former Telecom Minister Sukh Ram was in a coma, the 86-year-old is being taken to jail in an ambulance.

For the record, he executed the first official telecom scam in the country. Fifteen years on, the law finally caught up with former Telecom Minister Sukhram as a Delhi court today sentenced him to five years of rigorous imprisonment for accepting a bribe of Rs three lakh and showing undue favour to a private firm in 1996.