2G: Swamy lashes out at Chidambaram
Mumbai: Terming a Delhi court’s dismissal of his petition against home minister P Chidambaram in the 2G case as “wrong”, Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Sunday said he would soon prove the decision wrong in the Supreme Court.
He also claimed Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had dossiers on black money stashed away by Indian ministers in foreign banks.
“Prima facie, I established a case against Chidambaram and even the court agreed. I wanted the court to summon him to establish his criminality and cross-examine him as to why he agreed to the 2001 pricing and share dilution of companies,” Swamy said while speaking at the second anniversary lecture of Moneylife Foundation, a not- for-profit organisation.
Swamy said that he will soon move the Supreme Court against Chidambaram.
He questioned as to why Chidambaram’s role was not being probed in the case. “If A Raja is criminally liable, why can’t Chidambaram’s role be probed,” he asked.
“Conviction proceedings cannot be brought at trial stage. The judge acted on a wrong basis,” he alleged.
Swamy also slammed several ministers including communications minister Kapil Sibal, as also Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Taking a dig at the prime minister, Swamy said that Manmohan Singh was weak. He also compared Sonia to a ringmaster with a whiplash and Manmohan Singh to a lion.
“In Hindi, Singh means a lion,” he said, in a lighter vein.
He said that Pakistan’s ISI had dossiers on black money stashed away by Indian ministers abroad.
“The ISI knows which minister has how much money in which account in a foreign bank,” he said.
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* Dr Swamy filed petition before trial court for making Chidambaram as co-accused in 2G scam, for establishing prime-facie whether Chidambaram had involved in crime or not, he submitted certain documents, which establishes Chidambaram is a party to decision in which govt. given radio waves licenses to certain private firm in 2008 with 2001 prices, trial court judge O.P.Saini accepted the fact that Chidambaram is party to a govt. decision. As per CrPC next step shall be, he could have sought an investigation in to the matter, only after investigation, criminal culpability of Chidambaram if any could have been established, without investigation report dismissing the petition at this stage, on 4th February in 2012 is highly erroneous. Collecting the evidence is the job of investigating agency/prosecuting authority, not the duty of complainant, in this case prosecuting authority is Govt. of India, accused is Home Minister in Govt. of India. CrPC only empowers criminal investigating powers to police, in this case CBI, not to petitioner. The CBI u/s 161 CrPC has to record the statements of persons supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case. In 2G scam case CBI not even recorded statement of Chidambaram u/s 161 CrPC. The same CBI had recorded statements of former Telecom Minister and former Finance Minister i.e. Arun Shorie and Jaswant Singh respectively. Both were Ministers before 2004, where as the crime occurred in 2008. Hence free and fair investigation by CBI shall only possible if P. Chidambaram steps down as Union Home Minister.