The Supreme Court will on Tuesday resume hearing on a petition moved by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy against Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
Swamy has been demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the Union Home Minister and making him a co-accused in the case.
The Janata Party president had alleged that Chidambaram was equally culpable along with A Raja, the former telecom minister, under whose regime the 2G scam took place, for the pricing of the spectrum and allowing telecom firms to off-load their shares to foreign companies.
Swamy had on April 20 informed the apex court that Chidambaram, as the then finance minister, had given his nod for the allocation of extra spectrum to service providers even before they had fulfilled their roll out obligations.
Earlier on April 4, a Delhi court had cleared Chidambaram’s name in the 2G spectrum allocation scam stating that he will neither be investigated nor made a co-accused in the case.
–Agencies