2G case; Swamy seeks continuance of complaint, accuses TN CM

New Delhi, Feb 5 (PTI) Janata Party chief Subramanian
Swamy Saturday strongly pleaded for continuance of his private
complaint in the 2G spectrum case before a court in the Indian
capital here, which asked him whether there can be "parallel
proceedings" in a criminal case when CBI was taking action in
the matter.
Swamy sought to claim that his complaint covers
wider canvas of "involvement" of Chief Minister of the south
Indian state of Tamil Nadu K Kruananidhi in the scam and
national security.
He was responding to a pointed query of Special
Judge Pradeep Chaddah as how parallel proceedings can
continue on the same issue when "media reports" suggested that
Central Bureau of Investigation was probing the case and has
also arrested former Telecom Minister A Raja and two top
officials in the case.
"As per section 210 of the CrPC, when it appears to
the magistrate that the police (CBI) investigation is in
progress in relation to some matter, the complaint case,
which is pending before him, then he must stop the proceedings
and call for reports," the court said while asking the agency
to file a detailed report on February 22.
Earlier, Swamy said "the scope of the private
complaint was much wider than what is being investigated upon
by the CBI and as per my knowledge, the complaint also
involves concerns of national security and involvement of
Karunanidhi."
The Janata Party leader said that he was intending to
file an application seeking impleading of the Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister as an accused in the case as there was sufficient
evidence to that effect.