<p>Official sources said the questioning would form the basis for summoning former Telecom Minister A Raja to the CBI headquarters.<br /><br />Sources said the agency questioned R K Chandolia, Raja's former personal secretary, Siddhartha Behuria, then DoT secretary, K Sridhar, then Member, Telecom Commission, A K Srivastava, then Deputy Director General, Access Service Wing, DoT, and Raja's business partner Sadiqui Batcha, Managing Director of Chennai-based Greenhouse Exports.<br /><br />The agency is also examining a a diary with various details, which is said to have been recovered during the searches conducted by the investigating agency on Wednesday from the residence of Raja.<br /><br />The diary, according to sources privy to the probe, has some details pertaining to the allocation of 2G spectrum among other details.<br /><br />Sources said CBI sleuths spent considerable time in checking the entries made in the diary which consist of names of some politicians and corporate honchos.<br /><br />Raja was forced to resign as minister on November 14 in the wake of CAG's report that the rates at which 2G spectrum was allotted resulted in a possible loss to the exchequer to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.<br /><br />Besides being accused of undervaluing 2G spectrum, Raja has also been blamed for circumventing the rules to favour companies that did not meet the eligibility criteria for getting spectrum licences.<br /><br />The CBI had registered a case on October 21, 2009 against unknown Department of Telecom officials and private persons and companies for allegedly causing loss of thousands of crores of rupees to the exchequer. <br /></p>
<p>Official sources said the questioning would form the basis for summoning former Telecom Minister A Raja to the CBI headquarters.<br /><br />Sources said the agency questioned R K Chandolia, Raja's former personal secretary, Siddhartha Behuria, then DoT secretary, K Sridhar, then Member, Telecom Commission, A K Srivastava, then Deputy Director General, Access Service Wing, DoT, and Raja's business partner Sadiqui Batcha, Managing Director of Chennai-based Greenhouse Exports.<br /><br />The agency is also examining a a diary with various details, which is said to have been recovered during the searches conducted by the investigating agency on Wednesday from the residence of Raja.<br /><br />The diary, according to sources privy to the probe, has some details pertaining to the allocation of 2G spectrum among other details.<br /><br />Sources said CBI sleuths spent considerable time in checking the entries made in the diary which consist of names of some politicians and corporate honchos.<br /><br />Raja was forced to resign as minister on November 14 in the wake of CAG's report that the rates at which 2G spectrum was allotted resulted in a possible loss to the exchequer to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore.<br /><br />Besides being accused of undervaluing 2G spectrum, Raja has also been blamed for circumventing the rules to favour companies that did not meet the eligibility criteria for getting spectrum licences.<br /><br />The CBI had registered a case on October 21, 2009 against unknown Department of Telecom officials and private persons and companies for allegedly causing loss of thousands of crores of rupees to the exchequer. <br /></p>