NIRA RADIA TAPES

1) Nira Radia runs a public relations firm named Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, and also operates through subsidiaries such as Neucom, Noesis Strategic Consulting Services and Vitcom Consulting,^[3] whose clients, among others, include Tata Group;Reliance Group etc
2) The Income Tax Department authorised by Home Ministry tapped Radia's phone lines  in 2008-2009 to  investigate alleged large scale money laundering, tax evasion and financial malpractices

3) In  December 2010, the income-tax department and the CG have - in a joint affidavit submitted to the S C declared that the tapping was ordered 8 months after the office of the Union Finance Minister received a complaint against Nira Radia on Nov 16, 2007

4) Investigative Journalist Gopikrishnan of " The Poneer" filed the first report in mainstream media about Nira Radias' phone recordings and her involvement in the 2G spectrum scam along with A. Raja. This report titled "Tapped and Trapped" was published in The Pioneer on April 28, 2010, to which Nira Radia responded with a legal notice

5) On November 29, 2010, " The Outlook"magazine ran a cover story and published transcripts of the Radia tapes with these comments: "India, the republic, is now on sale. 



 
6) Revelations of the influence wielded by corporate power players, evident from the telephonic conversations,in a petition to the Supreme Court to make all Radia tapes public, the NGO - Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), through counsel Prashant Bhushan said that the chance publication of the Radia tapes showed "subversion of government decisions, policy

 7) CBI raids on15 Dec 2010 the residence and offices of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and former TRAI chairman Pradeep Baijal in connection with the 2G spectrum scam.The allegation against Baijal was that as the chairman of the regulatory body, which recommends various policies to the Government, he had helped some telecom firms.