Niira Radia, Vaishnavi Communications head, and Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, have denied charges of manupulating government policy as well as of influence-peddling when they appeared before the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for the 2G spectrum scam probe. On the contrary, Ratan Tata claimed that his company has been victimized by this government policy. according to him, the company had to keep waiting for about 85 days for getting GSM licence, while the other three companies had already licences, thanks to the first-come-first-serve policy.
CEO of S-Tel Shamik Das, chairman of Reliance Communications Anil Ambani, managing director of Unitech Wireless Sigve Brekke, and Atul Jhamb, CEO of Etisalat DB Telecom, would also be appearing before PAC this week.
Just to rewind, taped conversations between Radia and Tata as well as with various journalists, corporate heads and bureaucrats regarding were leaked couple of months ago. Ratan Tata, who has been co-operative all through out the probe unlike Radia, has accepted that the voice in the leaked tape in indeed his. Questions regarding the INR1,600 crore payment to Unitech were also raised during the probe. Tata claimed the money to be a soft loan.
However, Radia said that the tapes were partially true and tehy contain conversations that are out of context. Radia was found to urge journalists and others to influence some others for appointing certain persons as ministers, apart from trying to make a deal between the family of M Karunanidhi, DMK chief, and conetnders of 2G licences.
CEO of S-Tel Shamik Das, chairman of Reliance Communications Anil Ambani, managing director of Unitech Wireless Sigve Brekke, and Atul Jhamb, CEO of Etisalat DB Telecom, would also be appearing before PAC this week.
Just to rewind, taped conversations between Radia and Tata as well as with various journalists, corporate heads and bureaucrats regarding were leaked couple of months ago. Ratan Tata, who has been co-operative all through out the probe unlike Radia, has accepted that the voice in the leaked tape in indeed his. Questions regarding the INR1,600 crore payment to Unitech were also raised during the probe. Tata claimed the money to be a soft loan.
However, Radia said that the tapes were partially true and tehy contain conversations that are out of context. Radia was found to urge journalists and others to influence some others for appointing certain persons as ministers, apart from trying to make a deal between the family of M Karunanidhi, DMK chief, and conetnders of 2G licences.
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Theirs always corruption in high places.
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