New Delhi, April 04: Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata and Niira Radia were on Monday quizzed in connection with 2G spectrum scam by Parliament’s PAC whose head M.M. Joshi said the panel found the industrialist candid and the corporate lobbyist “evasive”.
The PAC will on Tuesday question Reliance Communications Chairman Anil Ambani, as also Etisalat DB Telecom CEO Atul Jhamb, S-Tel CEO Shamik Das and Unitech Wireless Managing Director Sigve Brekke on the same issue.
PAC quizzed Radia for two hours and Tata for three hours on issues related to the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
“It was felt by the PAC that Niira Radia was not putting facts clearly. She was not in a mood to place facts before the committee. When asked about the tapes, at first she dilly-dallied and was evasive,” Joshi told reporters.
Radia’s initial responses to questions about the tape were that “I cannot say this is correct”, “I have not heard this tape”, “I don’t remember”, “I do not know” and the like.
The PAC then informed Radia that she is here as a witness, several tapes are already on the website and she has already accepted before the CBI some of the conversations in the tapes.
“When she said she had heard some of the tapes, we said you give us the list of these tapes,” Joshi said.
-Agencies