The Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI, today filed a charge sheet against the then Union Minister of Communication and Information Techonology Dayanidhi Maran, two former Chief General Managers of BSNL, Additional Personal Secretary to Mr Maran, two officials of a private channel and a Chairman and Managing Director of private channel under various sections of Indian Penal Code .
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had registered a case in July 2013 on allegations of installing a number of high end telecommunication facilities at the residence of Mr Maran at Chennai illegally under service category and did not raise bills for the same during the period from 2004 to 2007 which caused huge loss to Government Exchequer.
It was alleged that during the period approximately 353 number of telephone lines were installed at Mr Maran’s residence. It is further alleged that 10 post-paid mobile connections with vanity numbers in respect of 9 numbers were given to a private Television channel as per the verbal orders of the Minister and that these connections were given under service category and no bill was raised.