2G scam verdict: How CBI killed its own case

CBI's own witnesses disowned its investigation in court

The voluminous 2G verdict delivered by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court acquitted all the accused in the case. Spread over six years, hundreds of prosecution and defence witnesses were examined and thousands of pages of documentary evidence produced – it seems nobody caused a Rs 31,000-crore loss to India by selling off valuable spectrum for pittance. The special court’s judgment shows that the CBI made charges that it could not defend, its own witnesses disowned its allegations in court and in many ways the CBI itself fumbled in the dark while probing how and who caused a