CENTRE FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION Vs. UNION OF INDIA
LAWS(SC)-2010-12-37
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Decided on December 16,2010

CENTRE FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION Appellant
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

G.S. Singhvi, J. - (1.) Leave granted.
(2.) Feeling aggrieved by refusal of the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court to entertain the writ petition filed by them for a court monitored investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (for short, the CBI) or a Special Investigating Team into what has been termed as 2G Spectrum Scam for unearthing the role of Respondent No. 5-Shri A. Raja, the then Union Minister for the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), senior officers of that department, middlemen, businessmen and others, the Appellants have invoked the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 136 of the Constitution.
(3.) After issue of notice by this Court on 13.9.2010, the parties have filed affidavits and large number of documents including performance audit report (draft and final) prepared by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on the issue of licences and allocation of 2G Spectrum by the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology for the period from 2003-04 to 2009-10, which has been submitted to the President of India as per the requirement of Article 151 of the Constitution, a compact disc allegedly containing conversation of Ms. Niira Radia with some public representatives, businessmen, journalists and alleged middlemen and written submissions.;


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