Prosecution failed miserably to prove any charge against any accused: 2G scam judge

New Delhi: Soon after the court met on Thursday to pronounce its verdict in the 2G spectrum allocation case, judge OP Saini ensured that only the accused and their counsels were present and read out the three-line operative part of his judgement that said, “I have absolutely no hesitation in holding that prosecution has miserably failed to prove any charge against any accused.”

All the 19 accused including DMK leaders A Raja and M Kanimozhi were acquitted in the case.

Parliamentarian and daughter of DMK supremo M Karunanidhi, Kanimozhi said justice has been delivered after the special court acquitted her and others in the 2G spectrum allocation scam cases.

"There is no evidence against me and justice has been delivered," Kanimozhi told media after the verdict was pronounced.

A Raja was reportedly in tears.

Outside the court, hundreds of their supporters had gathered.

The 2G scam has been described as India's biggest telecom scandal.

A Raja, a former telecom minister, was accused of allocating airwaves and licenses for mobile phone networks in exchange for kickbacks.

The CBI had alleged that there was a loss of Rs 30,984 crore to the exchequer in allocation of licences for the 2G spectrum which were scrapped by the top court on February 2, 2012.

The 2G allegations emerged during the second term of Dr Manmohan Singh's Congress-led coalition government at the centre. It became a key constituent of the image of the administration as one seeped in systemic graft.

Along with A Raja, promoters and top executives of some of India's best-known telecoms were named in the scam. Kanimozhi was accused of corruption too; the CBI said that a 200-crore bribe paid by a telecom to Raja was deposited in a TV channel in Chennai that is owned in part by her.

Raja was arrested in 2011 and spent nearly one year in jail before released on a bail.