The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted Essar and Loop promoters to file applications for transfer of their petitions in the 2G case to the top court from the Delhi high court, which had reservation on hearing their plea against the summons issued by special judge after CBI had chargesheeted them.
Essar promoters Anshuman and Ravi Ruia’s counsel Harish Salve raised the question on special judge O.P. Saini’s jurisdiction to take cognisance of the chargehseet when it does not contain any charge under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Mr Salve told a bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya that the CBI has only mentioned the charge under Section 420 of the IPC, which deals with the offence of cheating, against Essar-Loop promoters.

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Jamia to build hostel for Kashmiri students
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, Feb. 9

Making way for providing accommodation to students from Jammu and Kashmir to pursue higher studies in the national capital, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday signed a tripartite agreement with the Centre and the Jamia-Milia Islamia University to provide hostel facilities to 400 post-graduate, graduate and school-level students (separate for boys and girls) from the state.

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CBI on 2g: reliance CA resiling from statement
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, Feb. 9

A chartered accountant with Reliance ADAG, who is a prosecution witness in 2G spectrum case was on Thursday accused by the CBI in a Delhi court of resiling from his statement to save the group’s three officials who are accused in the case.
Nilesh Doshi was accused by CBI of making a “false statement” as a witness in the court to save the company’s top executives Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair, who have been chargesheeted for criminal conspiracy and other penal offences in the 2G scam. “You (witness) are working with the Reliance ADA Group and you know Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair (Reliance ADA group officials) well and so you are making a false statement in the court to save them,” CBI prosecutor A K Singh said.

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Lawyer earns judge ire in games case
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, Feb. 9

A senior advocate on Thursday accused the court trying the CWG scam of giving an “impression” that a fair trial was not conducted in the case, enraging the special CBI judge who then sent a complaint to the Delhi high court Chief Justice about the conduct of the counsel and directed the matter be sent to the district judge. To the end of the proceedings, senior advocate Ramesh Gupta, who is the counsel for accused Lalit Bhanot, told the court of special CBI judge Talwant Singh that a “hostile” atmosphere was being created in the court by calling the accused to the court everyday for scrutiny. Infuriat-ed by the comments, Judge Talwant, who is dealing with the CWG TSR scam case, denied the allegations and said that this behaviour was not expected from a senior advocate.