2G scam: SC to go through TRAI report on no loss to exchequer
This is the second time since Aug 30 they have been granted exemption from personal appearance on "health grounds".When counsel for the accused moved an application seeking exemption from personal appearance, Lokayukta special courtjudge N K Sudhindra Rao accepted it, but however directed them to "appear without fail on September 7".Earlier counsel for the third accused, Vinod Goel, Managing Director of Jentakal Mining Company, who was present in court, filed an application for bail.The court also granted time till Sept 7 to counsel for the complainant, advocate Vinod Kumar to file his objections to the bail application.Earlier, Hazmath Pasha,counsel for Kumaraswamy and his wife filed applications seeking exemption from personal appearance under Sec 205 CrPC on health grounds and Sec 317,asking for 15 days timeas they had filed an anticipatory bailapplication before the High Court,which will comeup for hearing tomorrow.On August 8, the court had issuedsummons to all three, directing them to appear before it on August 30.Vinod Kumar had alleged that Kumaraswamy illegally recommended renewal of mining licence of Jantakkal miningcompany and also allotted land to a private housing society when he was Chief Minister heading the JDS-BJP coalition government and that the society in turn allotted a residential site to his wife. [More]Tags:2g scama raja2g spectrum