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New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would file a status report next week on its probe against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran for his alleged involvement in the controversial Maxis-Aircel telecom deal.
Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval told the apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice KS Radhakrishnan that the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) status report would also include other dimensions of the investigation undertaken by the agency in the 2G matter.
The court declined to pass any direction on the plea of Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) counsel Prashant Bhushan plea that the CBI be asked to submit a status report on its probe into allocation of excess spectrum to the telecom operators during late telecom minister Pramod Mahajan’s tenure in 2002.
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The judges said that let the investigating agency submit its status report and then it would decided what direction was to be given to it.
The court said that the investigating agency was free to proceed against NGO Telecom Watchdog’s secretary Anil Kumar for making a volte face on his earlier allegation on the involvement of Maran in the Maxis-Aircel deal.
The apex court on 11 April directed Sharma to explain his turnaround in stating that Maran, when he was the telecom minister, compelled Chennai-based businessman C Sivasankaran to sell his stake in mobile telephony provider Aircel to Singapore-based Maxis.
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