New Delhi, Saturday, December 17, 2011: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today told a Delhi court that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram should be made an accused in the 2G case as he had jointly taken the decision of spectrum prices with former Telecom Minister A Raja, the key accused in the case.

Testifying as a witness in support of his private complaint seeking prosecution of Chidambaram, Swamy said Raja could not be held guilty “alone” of the charges that he fixed the price of spectrum licence in 2008 at the prevailing rates of 2001.

“Raja could not be guilty of this (fixing the rate of spectrum charges at nominal price fixed in 2001) charge alone but he committed this offence with the active connivance of P Chidambaram,” Swamy told Special CBI Judge O P Saini.

He said that as per a 2003 cabinet decision, Raja and Chidambaram, who was the then Finance Minister, were empowered to determine the spectrum price jointly.

(News agency)