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Swan Telecom Promoter Shahid Balwa, facing trial along with former Telecom Minister A Raja and 15 others in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, today told a special court that then Solicitor General (SG) GE Vahanvati had said that the firm was eligible for the licenses.
The papers which went missing from the Home Ministry include the copy of an affidavit vetted by the Attorney General and submitted in the Gujarat High Court in 2009 and the draft of the second affidavit vetted by the AG on which changes were made.
Concerned over recent incidents of arrest of people allegedly for posting offencive messages on social networking sites, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea to amend the Information Technology Act and sought Attorney General GE Vahanvati's help in deciding it.
Sources tell CNBC-TV18 that finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked attorney general GE Vahanvati to be part of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the go-no-go policy, in light of the Bellary mining ban placed by the Supreme Court.
After embarrassing the Prime Minister and Finance minister P Chidambaram with his dramatic courtroom allegations in the 2G scam, former Telecom Minister A Raja softened his stance on Tuesday saying he had been misquoted by the media.
