2G: Court order on Dec 18 on CBI's plea to file more documents

The CBI's plea in this regard before Special CBI Judge O P Saini was opposed by RTL and Reliance ADA Group's three top executives, co-accused in the case, on the ground that the probe agency has to establish the relevance of these documents first.

During the arguments, Special Public Prosecutor U U Lalit said out of 15 sets of documents which CBI wants to place before the court, they are "straight away" dropping four.

He said the agency will further drop three more sets of documents if they are allowed to place one set of documents relating to statement of accounts of some companies.

The agency had earlier told the court that these documents include books of accounts of Swan Consultants Services Pvt Ltd, Tiger Trustees Pvt Ltd and other firms and some documents relating to RTL.

According to CBI charge sheet, Swan Consultants Services Pvt Ltd and Tiger Trustees Pvt Ltd were the alleged associate firms of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

RTL and three top executives of the Reliance ADAG -- Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair -- along with others are facing trial in the 2G case in which former Telecom Minister A Raja is the key accused.

Lalit told the court that some of the documents pertain to the transactions between Reliance ADA Group companies and Swan Telecom, whose promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka are also co-accused in the case. (More)