The 2G spectrum case involved a $40 billion alleged scam during the UPA government in India from 2008 to 2009. Politicians like A. Raja and M.K. Kanimozhi, as well as bureaucrats like Siddharth Behura and R.K. Chandolia were accused of undercharging mobile companies for 2G licenses. This caused a major loss to the public exchequer. Activists and lawyers like Prashant Bhushan, Subramaniam Swamy and Vinod Rai pursued the case, resulting in the cancellation of 122 telecom licenses by the Supreme Court in 2012. Investigations are still ongoing around related issues like the Aircel-Maxis deal.

2. WHAT is 2G SCAM ?
The 2G spectrum case was a $40 billion alleged scam by the
politicians and government officials under the United
Progressive
Alliance (Congress) coalition government in India.
The Union Government of that time was accused of undercharging
mobile telephone companies for frequency allocation licenses,
which they used to create 2G spectrum subscriptions for cell
phones.

3. Accused parties! Politicians
Andimuthu Raja popularly known as A Raja
is an Indian politician from the Dravida
Munnetra Kazhagam political party.
He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha
representing the Nilgiris constituency of
Tamil Nadu and had been elected to house
for four times since 1996
A. Raja
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Kanimozhi (born 5
January 1968) is an Indian politician, poet and
journalist. She is a Member of Parliament,
representing Thoothukudi constituency in the
Lok Sabha (the lower house of India's
Parliament). She was also a Member of
Parliament, representing Tamil Nadu in the
Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India's
Parliament). [2] Kanimozhi is the daughter of
the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu
Karunanidhi and his third wife Rajathi Ammal.
M. K. Kanimozhi

4. Bureaucrats
Siddharth Behura was Secretary,
Department of
Telecommunication (DoT) from
January 1, 2008 to September
30, 2009.
Siddharth Behura
It was Behura who signed the files
leading to the allocation of 122
licenses.
Raja's private secretary when the licenses
were granted
According to the CBI charge sheet Chandolia,
like Behura, conspired with Raja and several
others; when the application deadline time was
declared from 3:30 to 4:30 pm, Chandolia
joined Behura in shutting counters to physically
block other telecom companies
RK Chandolia

5. Corporate Executives

6. Niira Radia is a British citizen who
owned a lobbying firm in India. She is
currently the chairperson of Nayati
Healthcare & Research Pvt. Ltd, a hospital
in Mathura.
Niira Radia

7. Corporations

8. Barkha Dutt
According to critics,
Dutt and Sanghvi knew about the link between the government and the
media industry but delayed reporting the corruption
More than 250 websites and news portal were active in 2 G Scam .
Vir Sanghvi

9. Power of medium and heroes of 2-G
spec !
Subramaniam Swamy
Swamy moved Supreme Court and filed a
criminal complaint against A. Raja in a
Tis Hazari court in 2010.
NGO Telecom Watchdog
After observing Loop Mobile and pubic
prediction poll . NGO Force for
investigation .

10. Advocate Prashant Bhushan
Prashant Bhushan is a public interest lawyer in the
Supreme Court of India and an activist. He was a
member of the faction of the India Against
Corruption (IAC) .
Vinod Rai`
is a former Indian IAS officer who served
as the 11th Comptroller and Auditor
General of India

11. D S Mathur, had refused to sign the files
which had delayed the grant of the
licences.
A former senior official of the department of
telecom (DoT) on Monday told a special CBI
court that erstwhile telecom minister A Raja
had "not consulted" him during preparation of
the letter sent to the Prime Minister on
December 26, 2007.

12. Time lines and Journey till date so far !

16. Companies affected by cancellations

17. Aircel-Maxis deal controversy
On 6 June 2011 former Aircel chief C. Sivasankaran complained to the CBI
about not receiving a telecom licence and beingforced by telecom minister
Dayanidhi Maran to sell Aircel to the Malaysia-based Maxis Communications
group, owned by T.Ananda Krishnan.
The licences were allegedly issued after the deal was made. Sivasankaran also
alleged that brothers Dayanidhi and Kalanithi Maran received kickbacks in
the form of investments by the Maxis group through the Astro network in Sun
TVNetwork, owned by the Maran family.
In the wake of the allegations, Maran resigned on 7 July 2011.
In July 2018, the CBI named P Chidambaram and Karti Chidambaram as
accused in its supplementary charge sheet. The charge
sheet named 16 other co-accused, including former finance secretaries Ashok
Chawla, Ashok Jha, former Aircel CEO V
Srinivasanand, Maxis owners T Ananda Krishnan and Ralph Marshal.

18. Joint Parliament – 2G Scam

19. Hidden and Investigation Pointers 2 G
SCAM