Reality of Indian Legal System!

Posted by Jai Prakash Meena on 18 January 2011 in News and current affairs

A small example of our active Legal System

Here 2 diffrent-2 stories, one of them a common man and 1 of them a Politician. A common man get strict punishment for the little crime,while another side a politician get nothing for his big theft(2G Scam) of Rs 1.76 lakh crore. Let’s see 2G Scam in Brief

From the time allegations of misappropriation during the bidding for allocation of 2G spectrum surfaced, till Telecom Minister A Raja's ouster, high drama charged both politics in Delhi and Tamil Nadu. So what exactly is the Spectrum Scam that led to all this? **WHAT IS SPECTRUM SCAM?**

2G licenses issued to private telecom players at throwaway prices in 2008
CAG: Spectrum scam has cost the government Rs 1.76 lakh crore
CAG: Rules and procedures flouted while issuing licenses

WHAT ARE THE CHARGES ON FORMER TELECOM MINISTER A RAJA?

CHEAP TELECOM LICENSES
Entry fee for spectrum licenses in 2008 pegged at 2001 prices
Mobile subscriber base had shot up to 350 million in 2008 from 4 million in 2001

**NO PROCEDURES FOLLOWED**

Rules changed after the game had begun
Cut-off date for applications advanced by a week
Licenses issued on a first-come-first-served basis
No proper auction process followed, no bids invited
Raja ignored advice of TRAI, Law Ministry, Finance Ministry
TRAI had recommended auctioning of spectrum at market rates

FAVOURITISM, CORPORATES ENCASH PREMIUM

Unitech, Swan Telecom got licenses without any prior telecom experience
Swan Telecom given license even though it did not meet eligibility criteria
Swan got license for Rs 1537 crore, sold 45% stake to Etisalat for Rs 4200 crore
Unitech Wireless got license for Rs 1661 crore, sold 60% stake for Rs 6200 crore

All nine companies paid DoT only Rs 10,772 crore for 2G licences

Now you can judge!

Courtesy- Dainik Bhaskar

Comments

pronoy 19 Jan 2011, 19:40

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Thanks for bringing into light such type of issue of our judicial systems. Our Judicial system is really going to be peculiar. One such example is Your blog where You brought into light that a thief of Rs.20 has been punished rigorously and all the Dacoits of multicrore 2G spectrum cases are moving freely in the society without any legal recourse. Thanks once again

Anonymous guest 19 Jan 2011, 22:11

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Good One!! but again,the magistrate was bound by law.He can not override with the provisions of law. still, he should have taken some lenient view.
about the non-conviction of politicians doing multi crore scams, I can only say that we are responsible for such inactions and not the judiciary itself. We allow such kind of politicians to sit over our head and do whatever they want to do but still we never act against them. So we must bear with all this until we change ourselves.

jpseehra 19 Jan 2011, 23:40

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Thanks Pronopy for your appreciation for my blog.
But we can do something,if we really want to do something.

Anonymous guest 20 Jan 2011, 22:29

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I appreciated the judgment & the ideology of the judge - theft is theft but the flow is on the nature of the case, which strikes issues like petty cases are always ignored by the law or to say is normally exempted under the law.
Judge had done his best part keeping in mind Ss 378 & 379 of IPC what he should had have appreciated is the nature that the money is only RS. 20/-

Law are harsh they is no space to be lenient nether emotional!!

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