Ex-CAG Vinod Rai tenders unconditional apology to Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam in defamation case
The case was filed by Sanjay Nirupam against Vinod Rai over a claim he made during a 2014 interview that he was pressured by Nirupam and other MPs to keep former PM Manmohan Singh out of the 2G spectrum report.
Rai had accused the former PM of failing to prevent the controversial 2G spectrum licence allocation despite some of the ministers expressing concern about the process. (File photo) Former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai has tendered an unconditional apology to Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam who had filed a defamation case against him for his remarks in 2014 that the latter had asked him to drop former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s name from 2G spectrum report.
Rai tendered the apology in an affidavit submitted to Metropolitan Magistrate Manu Shree in which he stated that the comments he had made against Nirupam are “factually incorrect.” The court has now disposed of the case following the apology.
“I have realised that, in answer to questions posed to me by the interviewers, I had inadvertently and wrongly mentioned the name of Shri Sanjay Nirupam as one of the MPs who pressurised me to keep the then prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s name out of the CAG report on 2-G spectrum allocation during the meetings in the PAC or the sidelines of the JPC etc,” Rai’s affidavit read.
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