
A trial court rejected Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy's plea to make union Home Minister P. Chidambaram a co-accused in the 2G spectrum allotment case.
Speaking to the media after the verdict, Swamy said, "This order deserves to be reversed". He clearly stated that he will approach the High court, if it still goes against him, he will appeal to the Supreme court. He also said he had a strong case against Chidambaram and A Raja, that they made the decisions together.
Upon being asked if he was disappointed with the verdict, he said there was no question of disappointment. However, he did say he was surprised at the judgement because he said his evidence was complete.
Meanwhile senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal the Congress party stands vindicated. Ambika Soni said Swamy is doing this to get attention and that this is a victory of the truth.
Only the petitioner, Subramanian Swamy is allowed to inside the courtroom. Swamy is accompanied by his wife and private secretary. Meanwhile reports say that Chidambaram is scheduled to fly out of Delhi at 1pm.Swamy had filed a plea seeking direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the role of Chidambaram in fixing 2G licence prices and grant of spectrum.In his application, he had said under the 2003 decision of the empowered Group of Ministers (GoM) approved by the cabinet, the pricing formula for spectrum was required to be finalised jointly by the department of telecommunications (DoT) and the finance ministry headed by P. Chidambaram at that time.
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