NEW DELHI: Scene was different in the Supreme Court on Thursday with a number of CBI officers present in the apex court to witness hearing of a case involving their director Ranjit Sinha.
“How come so many officers are standing here? We don’t require so many officers here. Let them not waste time here and go and work in office,” said Chief Justice of India HL Dattu.
The CBI chief was there to attend a hearing of a request by AAP leader and noted lawyer Prashant Bhusan to remove him from the investigation into the telecom scam, also referred to as “2G scam.
Bhusan had alleged second-wave generation of airwaves were given with out-of-turn mobile network licenses to firms who paid kickbacks.
Bhushan has also alleged that Sinha was meeting telecom executives, accused of criminal conspiracy in acquiring licenses for their firms, regularly at his Delhi home out of line. The CBI says that former Telecom Minister A Raja favoured firms who paid him bribes to jump to the head of a long queue of applicants.
However, Raja has denied any wrongdoing, so has the CBI chief.
