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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
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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.
But we can do something,if we really want to do something.
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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