Find out how Etisalat got spectrum: SC to CBI

The Finance ministry had written to Etisalat that its proposal for enhancing FDI in India has been rejected by Foreign Investment Promotion Board in view of the Home Ministrys reservation on it.

The bench also asked the CBI to look into why Chennai-based telecom operator S-Tel pulled out of its litigation against government for arbitrary allotment of spectrum by former telecom minister A Raja. The agency has to file its report by March 15.

The grant of 2G spectrum allocation licence to Etisalat DB was questioned by the Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on the ground of threat to national security and he had informed the court that the Home Ministry had raised the objection to investment by it.