Top Indian Judges Ask Trial Court to Decide on Chidambaram Probe
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India’s Supreme Court said a lower trial court should decide whether to investigate the role of Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram in a 2008 sale of phone licenses that has triggered corruption charges and damaged the government.
The top court had been petitioned by a regional politician, Subramanian Swamy, who alleged that as finance minister at the time of the permit award, Chidambaram was party to discussions on the pricing of second-generation airwaves. Chidambaram could have insisted on an auction that would have secured market rates and eliminated losses to the exchequer, Swamy argued.