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The scam that never was

From terror cases to murder of public intellectuals to scams, the Indian state has no capacity to deliver justice

Illustration by Binay Sinha
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Aakar Patel
The process of distributing spectrum by former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s government is referred to as the 2G Scam. A judge who has examined the material presented by the state says there was no scam.

The papers will be full of details but a couple of points must be visited. Judge O P Saini says “there is no evidence on the record produced before the court indicating any criminality in the acts allegedly committed by the accused persons.” And, also that “the charge sheet of the instant case is based mainly on misreading, selective reading, non-reading and out-of-context reading of
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