I indicated foul play in the following Blog published on 16 March 2011 and now the Government under pressure from Supreme Court of India.(my earlier comments are in Bold).
Times Now News Channel reported to day,5 April 2011,that the Government has ordered CBI probe.
There is one Above.
Irony is Sonia Gandhi and Karunanidhi are to address a joint public meeting in Chennai to day evening.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Order-CBI-probe-in-3-days–SC/771717/
The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Centre three days to issue a notification, asking the CBI to probe into the death of A M Sadhick Batcha, a close aide of former telecom minister A Raja.
Batcha died in mysterious circumstances at his Chennai home on March 16. He was questioned by the CBI four times in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The Tamil Nadu government has already passed a notification to hand over the investigation to the CBI from the local police.
Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising told the court that the Central government could pass the notification, but did not make a commitment. At this, the court told the government to do it within three days.
“In the facts and circumstances of the case, we direct the government to issue notification within three days transferring the investigation of the case to the CBI. Thereafter, the CBI will take over the investigation,” said a Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly.
I blogged dyring the last week of December 2010,about the involvement of Sadiq Pasha and also that Raja is better off in prison as their lives are not safe.
Hope Raja is protected.
This sordid saga has claimed one life while the perpetrators are Scot free.
Sadiq Batcha hanged himself at his home in the city of Madras, reports say.
Mr Batcha had been recently questioned by federal investigators about his suspected role in a multi-billion dollar telecoms scandal.
Mr Raja is in prison in connection with his role in the scandal, accused of selling mobile phone frequency licences for a fraction of their value.
Auditors estimate the alleged mis-selling of the licences cost the exchequer nearly $40bn (£24.5bn) in lost revenue. Mr Raja denies any wrongdoing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12758644?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
According to Chennai police commissioner T Rajendran said Batcha is reported to have committed suicide. His family members found him hanging in his bed room of his house in Tenyampet area of Central Chennai, close to the DMK headquarters. A cloud of suspicion hangs over his alleged suicide as he was the closest and trusted aide of Raja and was in the know of all his transactions and activities, since his days as the minister of state for rural development in the Vajpayee council of ministers in 1999.
While Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy, the applicant on 2G Spectrum scam in the Supreme Court raised questions about the suicide theory, political commentator Cho Ramaswamy said that there was no reason for him to commit suicide. “I am positive there is some foulplay,” he said commenting on the sudden death of the key link in the 2G spectrum scam. Asking the CBI to probe all angles, Subramanian Swamy hoped that all the witnesses and accused in the 2G scam be provided security as the reputation of several big names was involved.
The police, though tightlipped, do not rule out foul play and are awaiting the post mortem report after Batcha’s body was shifted from Appolo Hospital to the Government hospital at Royapettah in the afternoon. The post morten report is expected late in the evening.
Tamil Nadu government, sources said, was contemplating handing over investigations into Sadiq Batcha’s sudden death to the CBI.
The sudden death of Batcha has come at a time when he was booked for an afternoon flight to Delhi to face CBI interrogation on Thursday amid reports that he might turn an approver.
Batcha, a longtime friend and associate of Raja, was mentioned by DB Realty managing director Shahid Balwa as his link to Raja, and is said to have known every activity. In fact, he was the managing director of a real estate company, Green House Promoters, in which Raja’s wife Parameswari was associated as one of the directors and later resigned. Raja’s brother A Kariyaperumal and his nephew A Parameswaran were also associated with the Green House Promoters, floated in 2007 with an initial investment of Rs 1 lakh and grew into a multi-crore company within few years. In the first year of operations alone, it reported a turnover of Rs 70 crore.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/Chennai/A-Raja-s-aide-found-dead-suicide-or-murder/Article1-674041.aspx
One such man was Sadiq Batcha, who heads several real estate firms in Chennai. Twenty years ago, he was a salesman in Pallapatti village in Salem district, knocking at doors to sell sarees on 10 instalments. Later, he sold radios and tape recorders. Unable to make ends meet, he migrated to Perambalur, where he met AIADMK’s Varathur Arunachalam. This was his stroke of luck, his key to fame and fortune. Arunachalam introduced him to Raja, a small-time DMK politician. Both were ambitious and ready to take risks. It was Raja who told him to venture into real estate. With small investments on both sides, they grew together. Today Batcha’s real estate empire is worth more than Rs. 2,000 crore.
http://ramanisblog.in/2011/01/06/raja-cornered-more-money-2g/
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