Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (an NGO and petitioner in the 2G case) has asked the Supreme Court to establish a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to monitor the Central Bureau of Investigation?s (CBI) examination of the 2G spectrum case.
Bhushan asked the court to appoint three retired officials to supervise the CBI investigation and assist the court in monitoring the investigation. Terming the documents submitted by the Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy as proof of the Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s alleged role in the 2G case, Bhushan said that the note submitted by the Ministry of Finance, suggesting Chidambaram’s alleged complicity in the 2G spectrum issue) makes his role in the 2G issue very clear.
Chidambaram was the Minister of Finance in 2008 when 2G spectrum was allocated during former Minister of Telecommunications and IT, A. Raja’s tenure.
Bhushan also said that the CBI?s reluctance to investigate Chidambaram’s role in the 2G case was not surprising. In response, the court said that the CBI counsel had said that the agency was an autonomous body and that the Centre cannot instruct it.
