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"If the trial goes on (against her), I would summon the Prime Minister as a witness," she submitted through her lawyer and senior advocate Sushil Kumar before Special CBI Judge O P Saini.
The 43-year-old Rajya Sabha member and daughter of DMK chief M Karunanidhi said that the Prime Minister has made a statement on the floor of the Parliament that no loss was incurred to the exchequer in the grant of licences for the 2G.
Her counsel contended that CBI`s case is that a huge loss has been caused to the exchequer due to the omission and commission of the acts of the accused, including former Telecom Minister A Raja.
"The moment, the loss factor goes out, the charge of cheating also goes out," Kumar said, adding, "The Prime Minister, the then Finance Minister (P Chidambaram) and the present Telecom Minister (Kapil Sibal) have told the House i.e. the people of India that no loss has been caused as 2G licences were not to be auctioned."
The DMK MP was rubbishing the CAG report estimating a presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore in the 2G spectrum allocation scam and CBI`s computation of Rs 30,984 crore loss.
