New Delhi, Dec 8 : The CBI on Wednesday morning carried out raids on the residences of former Telecom Minister A Raja in Delhi, Chennai and Coimbatore along with the residences of four Telecom officials.
The raids are being carried out at the residences of former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, Raja's personal secretary R K Chandolia, Telecom (member) K Sridhar and Deputy Director General (DoT) A K Srivastava.
The raids that began at 7 am, was still going on. The CBI remained mum on the raids.
The disgraced former Telecom minister was in the midst of another controversy after the Madras High Court on Tuesday suspended from the Bar a top lawyer allegedly involved in an attempt to influence a judge by taking the minister's name.
A division Bench of the Madras High Court suspended the Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry Bar Council chairman R K Chandramohan who tried to act as the conduit between Raja, then the IT and Communications Minister, and the judge to ensure that the anticipatory bail petition of a father-son duo close to Raja was considered favourably by the court.
Chandramohan was the counsel representing Dr C Krishnamurthy and his son Kiruba Sridhar, an MBBS student of the Pondicherry University, who faced charges of fudging his marksheets. The Minister, advocate and the doctor hail from Perambalur district with several years -- and layers -- of relationship between them.
Last week, the Supreme Court had come down heavily on Raja for "bypassing" and even "overruling" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advice to defer the allocation of 2G spectrum by a few days.
The apex court also took strong exception to the tone and tenor of Raja's letter to the Prime Minister, saying it amounted to showing "disrespect" to the highest authority in the country.
47-year-old Raja was forced to resign as Telecom minister on November 14 in the wake of the CAG's report that the rates at which 2G spectrum was allotted resulted in a loss to the exchequer to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.
Source: The Indian Express
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