Khurshid ‘role’ in clean chit to Essar-Loop: SC seeks reply

The Supreme Court today issued formal notice to the government in response to an application directly accusing Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid of having used his influence to publicly give a “clean chit” to Loop Telecom and Essar Group in the 2G spectrum case. A special bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly directed the Union of India, Department of Telecom, CBI and ED to file their responses on the application by an NGO, CPIL, expressing dissatisfaction that higher-ups in the government and within the CBI pressed the agency’s investigating officers to frame lighter charges of cheating and conspiracy — and not corruption — in the Loop/Essar probe. The court scheduled the hearing for January 20.

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