Documents show Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee led by BJP’s Murli Manohar Joshi was snapping at the heels of the Comptroller and Auditor General during the 2G spectrum allotment audit even as the CAG was grappling with internal contradictions on the loss estimate.
On June 30, 2010, the then finance secretary Ashok Chawla deposed before the Public Accounts Committee led by Murli Manohar Joshi in connection with the allotment of 2G spectrum and was questioned about the notional loss.
An official from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Monday identified the communication exchanged between the PMO and the former telecom minister A Raja.
R P Singh, retired officer behind the CAG report, says his colleagues visited PAC chief Murli Manohar Joshi at his residence on a gazetted holiday in 2011 to assist him with the panel's report on spectrum.
After the Director of Prosecution, which was sent the CBI’s draft chargesheet for its opinion, noted that no criminal case was made out, the CBI had referred the matter to Attorney General G E Vahanvati.