The Delhi High Court will announce on March 22 its decision on whether to admit the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) appeal challenging the acquittal of former Telecom Minister and current Lok Sabha MP A. Raja, and others, in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
The High Court reserved its decision on the matter on March 14. The case is currently at the stage of ‘leave to appeal’, which is a formal permission granted by a court to a party to challenge a decision in a higher court.
In December 2017, a special CBI court in New Delhi acquitted Mr. Raja, Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, and others in the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) cases related to the alleged 2G scam, noting that the prosecution had “miserably failed” to prove the charges.
The special CBI court also acquitted 17 others, including the late DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi’s wife Dayalu Ammal, Vinod Goenka, Asif Balwa, film producer Karim Morani, P. Amirtham, and Sharad Kumar, director of Kalaignar TV in the ED case.
On March 19, 2018, the ED approached the High Court challenging the special court’s order acquitting all the accused. A day later, the CBI too had filed its challenge against the acquittal in the High Court.
