Raja wrote to PM,but policy not discussed in DoT: Witness

Srivastava told the court of Special Judge OP Saini that the related paragraph in the note was an extract of letter written by MOCamp;IT Raja to the Prime Minister on December 26,2007. I was asked to treat the contents of this letter as policy directives for licensing matters8230; these are not the views of the AS cell or myself as the said letter was neither processed nor put up by AS cell, he said.

On being confronted with the document comtaining the FCFS policy,Srivastava said the policy was never discussed in the DoT. He also denied that he was being pressured by the CBI or that he had been confronted with Behura by the CBI to put pressure on him to support their case.

Raja,in a December 26,2007 letter to the Prime Minister,had given details about the procedures to be adopted for the distribution of Letters of Intent to the companies and the FCFS policy. The CBI,in its chargesheet,had alleged that Raja,in conspiracy with other accused,had changed the FCFS policy to favour some telecom companies.