SC dismisses Swamy plea against PC verdict

The Supreme Court dismissed BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s curative petition against its verdict,which had held that there was no material to show,even prima facie,that the Finance Minister P Chidambaram had abused his position or colluded with the then telecom minister A Raja in the 2G spectrum allotment scam.

“We have gone through the curative petition and the relevant documents. In our opinion,no case is made out within the parameters indicated in the decision of this court in Rupa Ashok Hurra vs Ashok Hurra & Anr…. Hence,the curative petition is dismissed,” a four-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam said.

Swamy had filed the curative petition against the order of the court dismissing his review petition. Swamy had moved the Supreme Court,demanding an investigation against Chidambaram,against the order of a special CBI court which had refused to make the Union Minister an accused in the spectrum allocation case.

The August 2012 verdict also said that a criminal conspiracy between Chidambaram and Raja could not be inferred on the basis of the mere fact that “there were official discussions between the officers of the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Telecom and also between the two ministers”.