Will seek info from probe agencies: JPC

The agencies include the CBI,Enforcement Directorate and the Central Board of Direct Taxes,which had made a presentation before the committee last week.

Chacko said the decision to sanction excess spectrum of 10 Mhz had been taken in a single day,on January 31,2002,on a note moved by Director-General of Mobile Value-Added Services VAS. He said Ghosh and the Minister signed it the same day. Pramod Mahajan was the telecommunications minister between 2001 and 2003. Many people did not see the file, he added.

Chacko said 20 days prior to this decision,Ghosh had made a noting on the file that there was no urgency for the allocation of additional spectrum as the service providers had to achieve the optimum utilisation first. Ghosh,according to Chacko,told the committee on Tuesday that the allocation of excess spectrum was a part of a process of ongoing distribution.