CBI’s new telecom loop

Given the facts of the case, CBI’s latest telecom FIR, and the subsequent raids on Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh, do appear politically motivated. For one, if you assume Ghosh and other telecom officials gave out more than the contracted 6.2 MHz of spectrum to telcos like Bharti and Vodafone at the behest of the then telecom minister, the BJP’s late Pramod Mahajan in 2001-02, no action has been taken against PSUs like BSNL and MTNL who have a lot more ‘extra’ spectrum.

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