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c. The sum and substance of the final report in a nutshell is that A3, while he was the Minister for Communication and Information Technology (MOC&IT) in the Government of India during 2004 to 2007, by abusing his Official Position, in connivance with A1, A2, A4 to A7 had obtained pecuniary advantage and caused, to the Government Exchequer, a loss of Rs 1.78 crores by installing a private telephone exchange at his residences at the Boat Club and Gopalapuram at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which he had used for business transactions involving the Sun TV Network. More than 700 high-end telecom http://www.judis.nic.in lines, having PRA/BRA/ISDN/leased line, were installed at the residences of A3 at the Boat Club area and Gopalapuram area at Chennai. They were installed under the Service Category and bills were not raised for such utilisation. Apart from such illegal installation of Landlines with ISDN facilities, on the instructions of A3, additional SIM cards for use of mobile phones with fancy numbers were blocked for SUN TV and distributed to private individuals connected with SUN TV Network. The facilities given to A3 was excessive, without any authority and not in consonance with the Rules and entitlement of Minister or Member of Parliament. By fabricating and forging the records, the accused had used such facilities as genuine to cover up the misdeeds. Based on fabricated documents, accounts were also falsified to show as if there was no outstanding dues from A3.

c. The charges framed against A3 are that in furtherance of the criminal conspiracy, A3 being the Public Servant, with the connivance of A1 and A2, when there is no provision to provide land line connection with ISDN/PRA/BRA facilities and mobile connections with ISD International Roaming, Fax, Super reveal facility to the Members of Parliament under Service Category, dishonestly and fraudulently, and even though as per the guidelines and roles, Union Ministers are not entitled for ISDN connection under Service Category, converted the old ISDN connections into Service Category, by forging documents and by violating the procedures and guidelines laid down, and got allotted 764 telephone connection and 67 Mobile SIMS and also used 19 Mobile SIMS in one account, bearing No.500708377 in his name. A3 by abusing his Official Capacity, without any public interest in order to obtain pecuniary advantage for himself and for A7, by illegal means, dishonestly and fraudulently misappropriated and got allotted 764 telephone connections and 67 mobile SIMS in his name.

f. The charges framed against A6 are that in pursuance of the above criminal conspiracy, A6, as Chief Technical Officer, utilized the ISDN connections provided to A3 for SUN TV Progammes and provided all technical support and placed an order to supply telephone exchange equipments for Rs.50 lakhs and abetted A1 to A4 to cause a wrongful loss to the Government Exchequer.