- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Rithika Siddhartha
INDIA’S former telecoms minister was cleared last Thursday (21) of his alleged role in a multi-billion dollar rort that ballooned into one of the country’s biggest-ever political scandals. A special court in New Delhi acquitted A Raja of corruption and also dropped charges against a slew of other bureaucrats and corporate executives implicated in the 2008 scandal that cost the state billions in lost revenue. Judge OP Saini said India’s federal investigators, who brought the explosive charges against the high-profile defendants, could not prove allegations of criminality. “I have absolutely no hesitation in holding that (the) prosecution has miserably…
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