There is no doubt that the charge sheet was filed at the behest of Kapil Sibal, the telecom minister in the UPA government. At the time when the telecom sector was riddled with scams, Sibal selected a retired judge of his choice and asked him to unearth an “NDA Scam” in telecom.
The judge opined that there could be an arbitrariness in fixing the spectrum user charges for allocation of additional spectrum. An unsustainable charge sheet was filed against an outstanding and honest civil servant Shyamal Ghosh. The idea to attack the NDA was by including the late Pramod Mahajan in column II as a deceased accused.
I had consistently maintained that this charge sheet was full of fabricated facts. I had written an Article on April 2, 2013 in The Hindustan Times commenting on this charge sheet… The court has vindicated what we had always maintained. The CBI officers who acted on the dictates of the political government will now face an enquiry. But what about the ministers who conspired to create a fabricated charge sheet and a retired judge who, for the sake of a post-retirement assignment, agreed to lend his offices for the same?
