Hopefully answers will come soon because this terrible ordeal has dragged on for five years now. Holloway's family and friends need for it to be resolved.The court had also said the CAG report on the 2G spectrum allocation placed in Parliament was “revealing”. The court was hearing a petition filed by Janata Party President Subramaniam Swamy that had sought a direction to the Prime Minister for grant of sanction for prosecution of Raja when he was the Telecom Minister. The Prime Minister is the respondent number one in the petition.
Raja resigned on Sunday in the wake of mounting pressure on him over the spectrum allocation controversy.
The court had granted time to the Centre to file the affidavit after the Solicitor General said he is in a position to place before it the entire record on the issue and file an affidavit on behalf of the government.
The bench had also asked Swamy that if he wanted to file any affidavit, he could do so by Monday. It posted the matter for further hearing on Tuesday.
Later, the Solicitor General had said the court’s observations did not amount to passing strictures on the Prime Minister. “If judges cannot ask questions, then who will ask the questions. We know how to deal with questions and we will answer them,” he said.
“Whatever was said (in the court) was part of a debate which takes place when a matter is adjudicated,” he had said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday had asked some embarrassing questions on lengthy delay on the part of the Prime Minister in taking a decision on Swamy’s plea, calling the “alleged inaction and silence” troubling.
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