2G: DoT official says was transferred after raising doubts

Ram Jee Singh Kushvaha, working as joint wireless advisor in DoT's Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) wing told the court that the department had declared a policy for determining the seniority for dual technology licence holder from the date of payment of entry fee.

"In case of new UAS (Unified Access Services) licencee, the date of receipt of complete application in WPC wing was to determine seniority of such new UAS licencees," he told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.

He said he had specifically raised the issue of clarity and guidance on inter se priority in a meeting on August 22, 2008 which was held with the then Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, an accused in the case, the then DDG (AS) A K Srivastava and two other DoT officers R P Aggarwal and K Sridhara.

Kushvaha said when he reached his office in Sanchar Bhawan on August 25, 2008, he was informed that he had been transferred to the Regional Licensing Office at Ghitorni here.

"In the service areas such as Delhi, where sufficient spectrum was not available, the issue related to inter se priority between different categories of licencees viz; dual technology licence holder and new UAS licencees, became very important.

"I used to tell Dinesh Jha (the then deputy wireless advisor) to inform the then wireless advisor, R P Aggarwal that inter se priority issue is very important and it needs to be clarified before cases are processed and files are submitted with some proposal," he said, adding that the case for spectrum allotment for Delhi service area could not be processed for want of certain clarity on the issue. (More)