SC pulls up Sibal for his `critique' on CAG's 2G spectrum report
21 Jan 2011
The Supreme Court has criticised telecom minister Kapil Sibal for making statements that undermine the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India on the 2G spectrum scam.
The court observed that Sibal has grossly undermined the CAG report and that a minister should have behaved with some sense of responsibility.
"It is unfortunate. The minister should behave with some sense of responsibility," the bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly said.
The bench was hearing an interlocutory application filed by Subramanian Swamy to bring the court's attention to the 'derogatory statements' made by Sibal on the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation.
Sibal had, on 7 January, disputed the CAG's presumptive loss estimate of Rs1,76,000 crore ($40 billion) in the allocation of spectrum for 2G phone services in 2008, during the tenure of former telecom minister A Raja. Sibal had criticised the CAG for using an "utterly erroneous" methodology and trying to "scandalise" the issue.
Sibal also had said the loss could have been a tenth of what CAG had estimated.
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