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Minutes after all the accused in the 2G spectrum case, including former telecom minister A Raja and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, were acquitted by Delhi’s Patiala House court, DMK supporters took to the roads to celebrate special judge OP Saini’s one-line verdict.
Politicians from the DMK and the Congress party expressed their satisfaction with the court’s verdict. “I would love to thank everyone who stood by me,” Kanimozhi said.
She told News 18 that she had been wrongly implicated and that the verdict will play a role in the upcoming general elections.
“Finally our innocence has been proved. I will not deliberately target anyone but there was a conspiracy and a lot of people had a hand in this. It wasn't very easy. You are being accused of something you haven't done and corruption charges are the worst. It means a lot for the DMK because corruption has been used as a peg to slam our party,” she told the channel.
Reacting to the verdict, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told reporters outside the Parliament that the scandal was "massive propaganda".
On the other hand, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley called the 2G spectrum allocation a “dishonest and corrupt policy”.
Speaking to reporters, former finance minister P Chidambaram said:
Former Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal also lauded the verdict.
MK Stalin, DMK’s working president, condemned the media’s role in "tarnishing” the image of his party.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that justice had prevailed.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, however, questioned the special court’s verdict, asking if the CBI messed up the case intentionally.
Meanwhile, former attorney general Mukul Rohatgi said that the accused had suffered enough from being embroiled in the case all these years.
(This article has been updated)
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Published: 21 Dec 2017,11:47 AM IST