2g Scam in India
The 2G spectrum scam involved officials in the government of India illegally undercharging mobile telephony companies for frequency allocation licenses, which they would use to create 2G subscriptions for cell phones.
According to a report submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor
General based on money collected from 2G licenses, the loss to the exchequer was
176,379 crore (US$38.27 billion)
. The issuing of the 2G licenses occurred in 2008, but the scam came to public notice when the
Indian Income Tax Department investigated political lobbyist
Niira Radia and the Supreme
Court of India took
Subramaniam Swamy's complaints on record [With Case type:Writ Petition (Civil),Case
No:10, Year:2011] [1]. The case details of the main PIL filed with the supreme court is Type:Writ
Petition (Civil),Case No:423,
Year:2010 [2].
In 2008, the Income Tax department, after orders from the ministry of Home and the
PMO, began tapping the phones of Niira Radia. This was done to help with an ongoing investigation into a case where it was alleged that Niira Radia had acted as a spy.[3]
Some of the many conversations recorded over
300 days were leaked to the media. The intense controversy around the leaked tapes, became known in the media as the Radia tapes controversy. The tapes featured some explosive conversations between
Politicians, Journalists and
Corporate Houses. Politicians from Karunanidhi to Arun
Jaitley[citation needed], journalists like Barkha Dutt and
Vir Sanghvi and Industrial groups like the Tata's were either participants or mentioned in these explosive
According to a report submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor
General based on money collected from 2G licenses, the loss to the exchequer was
176,379 crore (US$38.27 billion)
. The issuing of the 2G licenses occurred in 2008, but the scam came to public notice when the
Indian Income Tax Department investigated political lobbyist
Niira Radia and the Supreme
Court of India took
Subramaniam Swamy's complaints on record [With Case type:Writ Petition (Civil),Case
No:10, Year:2011] [1]. The case details of the main PIL filed with the supreme court is Type:Writ
Petition (Civil),Case No:423,
Year:2010 [2].
In 2008, the Income Tax department, after orders from the ministry of Home and the
PMO, began tapping the phones of Niira Radia. This was done to help with an ongoing investigation into a case where it was alleged that Niira Radia had acted as a spy.[3]
Some of the many conversations recorded over
300 days were leaked to the media. The intense controversy around the leaked tapes, became known in the media as the Radia tapes controversy. The tapes featured some explosive conversations between
Politicians, Journalists and
Corporate Houses. Politicians from Karunanidhi to Arun
Jaitley[citation needed], journalists like Barkha Dutt and
Vir Sanghvi and Industrial groups like the Tata's were either participants or mentioned in these explosive