'2G report not mine, was told to sign it'

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Appu Esthose Suresh: New Delhi, Nov 23 2012, 01:33 IST

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.

The officer behind the CAG’s 2G spectrum audit has said he was told to sign off on the controversial report by CAG headquarters even though he did not agree with the report’s findings.

R P Singh, former D-G, Post and Telecommunications at CAG, also said that CAG officials visited the residence of BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), on a holiday to help him prepare the panel’s report on the 2G spectrum allocation.

The PAC report was strongly critical of the roles played by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Attorney-General G E Vahanvati. About half the 21-member PAC, led by Congress members, rejected the report. On April 30, 2011, Joshi submitted the report to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar without their signatures, which the Speaker returned.

R P Singh told The Indian Express in a telephone interview that CAG officials had visited Joshi’s residence on the Good Friday holiday on April 22, 2011.

“I got to know from my team members that CAG officials including senior CAG officials from headquarters went to the PAC chairman’s residence and assisted him in preparing the PAC report. I cannot say with certainty what exactly transpired at the meeting,” Singh said.

Asked if there was an attempt by the PAC chairman to

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CAG Report

C K VOHRA | 25-Nov-2012Reply | Forward

The claim of RP Singh that report is not his has no meaning because it is the report of CAG which is presented to the Parliament and CAG is not saying it is not his report. RP Singh was a junior officer in the CAG Office. In every Govt organisation notes are prepared by the junior officers but the ultimate decision is taken at an appropriate level-may be at the level of the Secretary or Minister. That decision is communicated under the signatures of the Junior Officer- mostly under-secretay. May be the view expressed by under-secretary is not finally approved, but he has to sign on the final decision. The communications to other persons are normally not signed by Secretaries or the Ministers but the decision might have been taken at the level of Minister or Secretary. Transfer orders are generally issued under the signatures of under-secretary, though decided at the level of Minister or even Cabinet. That is what happened in this case. Report is of CAG though signed by RP Singh.

unfit to be an officer

Hussain | 23-Nov-2012Reply | Forward

If he closes his eyes and without applying his brains, if he was signing a document, then he is not fit to be a senior official. LET HIM RESIGN HIS POST FIRST, THEN TALK. RP Singh - WE PEOPLE OF INDIA ARE NOT PREPARED TO BUY YOUR COCK AND BULL STORY. HOW BIG IS THE SUITCASE YOU GOT FROM THE FILTHY CONGRESS?

R P Singh should be sent behind bars forthwith.

P M Ravindran | 23-Nov-2012Reply | Forward

This auditor has cheated the public by submitting a report he now claims to be ab initio wrong. He should go behind bars for life. Nothing less will do. And of course all his wealth should be confiscated and his dependents given just sustenance pension.