By IANS,
New Delhi : The CBI Tuesday objected to the central government telling the Supreme Court that it will examine documents given by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy indicating that Home Minister P. Chidambaram, as the then finance minister, was also involved in fixing the 2G spectrum price.
Swamy is seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against Chidambaram alleging that the spectrum price was not decided by jailed former communications minister A. Raja alone but was jointly fixed by the two.
An apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly was told that the 15 documents presented by Swamy were part of the 500 documents in a file that have already been perused by the CBI and the report was already with the special court trying the 2G scam case.
Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, appearing for the probe agency, took exception to the central government telling the apex court that the “new documents filed for the first time before this court will naturally be studied and considered by the CBI as usual and may be covered in the next status report (to the apex court)”.
“Nobody can put in our mouth what we are going to do. We are autonomous and independent of the government,” Venugopal said.