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Home Minister P Chidambaram should be investigated. Opposition MPs accuse Mr Chidambaram of failing to prevent the scandal when he was finance minister.
He denies any wrongdoing. Mr Raja is currently on trial for fraud. India is one of the world’s fastest growing markets for mobile telephones with 893 million connections.
“Licences after January 2008 are quashed [cancelled]. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will make fresh allocations by auction,” Justice GS Singhvi told the court.
Reports say yesterday’s verdict is likely to affect about 5 percent of connections used by mobile phone customers. India’s telecom regulator says the affected subscribers can be transferred to other mobile operators. Correspondents say the ruling is a setback for the government which has been hit by a series of corruption scandals in recent months. – BBC Sport.
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