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| Raja, Kanimozhi to be tried |
| 2G scam: Raja, Kanimozhi to be tried for criminal breach of trust
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| INDIA
, 22-October-2011
4:15:7 AM |
| Former Telecom Minister A Raja, Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi and the executives of some of India's biggest telecoms will stand trial for criminal breach of trust - a charge that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. A Delhi court headed by Judge OP Saini has accepted all the charges levelled by the CBI against the 14 individuals and three companies - Reliance Telecom, Unitech Wireless and Swan Telecom- listed as principal players in the 2G scam. The CBI's charges against them range from criminal conspiracy to forgery and cheating.
But the most serious charges in the case, controversially introduced by the CBI just a few weeks ago, are criminal breach of trust by a public servant for Mr Raja and Siddharth Behura, who was Telecom Secretary, and criminal conspiracy to cause criminal breach of trust by a public servant for the 12 others. The maximum sentence for these charges is life imprisonment. (2G scam: Charges against Raja, others)
As the trial begins, the spotlight will remain relentlessly on Mr Raja and Kanimozhi, the daughter of heavyweight Southern politician M Karunanidhi who heads the DMK, a major partner in the UPA coalition at the Centre. The arrest of his favourite child has tested the collaboration between the Congress and his party, though both sides have on record reiterated that their partnership is steady. Mr Karunanidhi visited Sonia Gandhi for 15 minutes this morning before driving to Judge Saini's court where he dropped off Kanimozhi's mother. The DMK chief is expected to meet with the Prime Minister at 6 pm.
"Raja and Kanimozhi are very confident that they have not done anything illegal or wrong, so they will come out clean," said Senior DMK leader TKS Elangovan.
Mr Raja has been in jail since February. Telecom executives like Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless and Gautam Doshi, Hari Nair and Surendra Pipara of Reliance Telecom were imprisoned in April. Kanimozhi was arrested in May.
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