NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today began hearing the plea for investigating the alleged role of Home Minister P Chidambaram in the 2G spectrum scam with an NGO claiming that he was in the know of all developments relating to fixation of price for allocation of radio waves.
The bench of justices G S Singhvi and S Radhakrishana, which was reconstituted after the retirement of Justice A K Ganguly, took up the plea of an NGO, which approached the apex court after the trial court had given a clean chit to Chidambaram.
The Court also directed CBI, Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax department to file a status report to update it on their probe in the 2G spectrum allocation case within three weeks.
Bhushan narrated the sequence of events from January 3, 2008 and January 8, 2008, the day the letters of intent were issued to companies for the spectrum till April 22, 2008 when deliberations were going on how the radiowaves could be sold at the price prevailing in the year 2001.
At the end of the hearing, senior advocate K K Venugopal, appearing for the CBI, said argument by the NGO were based on the same documents on which the apex court had decided the issue earlier.
''Same facts are replicated and the application is not maintainable,'' he said.
However, Swamy countered his submission that the apex court had said there is no case for further investigation against Chidamabaram.
The Janata Party Chief said the apex court had simply said that the trial court may proceed with the matter.
After hearing Bhushan's arguments, the Bench adjourned the case to April 11.
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