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| A Raja gets bail, |
| A Raja gets bail, likely to leave Tihar Jail today
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| INDIA
, 15-May-2012
3:58:56 AM |
| 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.
Mr Raja was reciting prayers under his breath as the judge began reading out his order. Minutes before that, he told NDTV's A Vaidyanathan that he did not expect a favourable verdict. A loud cheer went up among nearly 150 supporters of Mr Raja's party, the DMK, as the order was read out. Mr Raja then blew kisses to his supporters. His wife, MA Parmesweri, was seen with tears in her eyes. DMK leader TR Baalu told the media, "We are very happy."
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 conditions for his bail make it necessary for Mr Raja to get the court's permission to visit his home state of Tamil Nadu.
He was seen joking in court an hour before the order was announced with M Kanimozhi, also a leader from his DMK party, and co-accused in the telecom scam. She had also spent several months in prison till she was granted bail in November.
The charges against Mr Raja are hefty. For giving away licenses at dirt-cheap rates to companies that were ineligible, he has been accused of breach of trust by a public servant - a charge that could see him getting a life sentence if he is found guilty. He has said he is innocent, and that the Prime Minister and then Finance Minister P Chidambaram were aware of the policies he was implementing in 2008. But earlier this year, the Supreme Court cancelled 122 mobile network licenses issued by Mr Raja in 2008. The judges said that the first-come-first-serve policy followed by Mr Raja had been distorted to help companies he favoured - these allegedly include Reliance Telecom and Unitech Wireless,
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