The 2G Court is expected to deliver judgement in September. Special Judge OP Saini on Wednesday scheduled August 25 for clarifications, if any. He said that he has not yet finished studying all the files and documents related to CBI’s chargesheet against former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others. He said thereafter possibly in “10 days” judgement is expected to be pronounced.
Apart from the main case, the 2G Court is expected to pronounce judgements in two cases also. One case is the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet in the money trail to DMK’s Kalaignar TV from the 2G accused Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka. Another case is the CBI’s chargesheet against Essar and loop promoters for forgery and cheating in acquiring telecom license in the name of shell company.
The trial started in the 2G case on daily basis from April 2011. Apart from Raja, Kanimozhi, Swan Etisalat promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinode Goenka, Unitech promoter Sanjay Chandra, film producer Karim Morani, Kaliagnar TV Managing Director Sharat Kumar and Reliance Telecom officials Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair were charged by the CBI.
The chargesheet was over 1,20,000 pages and 150 witnesses were examined by the court in the six-year-long trial which ended on April 26.