No evidence to establish conspiracy with A Raja: Unitech

Telecom firm Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Limited, accused in 2G spectrum allocation scam, today

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told a Delhi court that there was no evidence to show that it had conspired with former Telecom Minister A Raja and others to get radio waves despite being an ineligible firm.

All decisions pertaining to allotment of 2G licences were taken by Department of Telecommunication (DoT) which acted as per the recommendations

of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), senior advocate S S Gandhi, appearing for the accused firm, told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.

"Where is the evidence that we (Unitech Wireless Limited) conspired? If anybody implements the policy on TRAI recommendations, then where is the conspiracy? No one, who are in custody now, have any role to play," he said.

Gandhi said TRAI recommendations advised against auctioning and revision of entry fee for licences.

"The recommendation of TRAI was that there should be no auction. It was not the decision of DoT...To say, any decision was taken by DoT with regard to non-auctioning or non-revision of the entry fee, is not correct," he said.

He also questioned the estimate of loss of Rs 30,984 crore to the state exchequer saying the "government's policies are not motivated by profit."

"If I (Unitech Wireless) would not have got it (licences), then somebody else would have got it at the same price. Where is the loss and where is the conspiracy?," he said.

"To say that any loss has been caused to the exchequer due to conspiracy between Raja and others, there is no evidence that Unitech or Sanjay Chandra (Managing Director of Unitech) conspired with Raja," Gandhi, who would continue with his arguments tomorrow, said.

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