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13.16 The Committee asked Ms Nira Radia whether the transcriptions of her conversation with various people,\u00a0 as published in the Outlook* and Open magazines were correct and authentic. Ms. Radia replied:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe have not accepted any of these conversations\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.17 The Committee asked whether any notice had been served to the Editors of the two magazines.\u00a0 In reply, Mr. Radia stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe have served\u00a0 a legal notice at the time they published the conversations, because, I believe, there is a tremendous amount of distortion in what they published and in the context in which they published the conversations and the real conversations.\u00a0 I believe that there is a tremendous amount of editing that has taken place in the conversations\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.18 The Committee then retorted that they were informed that nobody had legally contests or contradicted what was published in the magazines.\u00a0 In reply, Ms. Radia stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIf I can say, there are two aspects to this.\u00a0 When the conversations were made public, we did what we had to.\u00a0 We had to do it in terms of making at least protesting it as far as the magazine is concerned.\u00a0 As far as legal recourse available to us is concerned, we have time for the legal recourse\u201d.<\/p>\n She further stated:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026\u2026. Our\u00a0 priority at that time was to cooperate with the agencies because that was what was required of us to do.\u00a0 That is what we have done.\u00a0 As far as the magazines are concerned, I would imagine you are aware that my clients, who are the Tatas, have taken action and they moved the court on the larger issue of privacy in which the court itself has served notices to these magazines\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.19 Asked to state specifically whether any legal notice was served or not, Ms. Radia at last admitted:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe served only a protest.\u00a0 We have not taken legal action\u201d.<\/p>\n She further stated that she was intending to take legal action.<\/p>\n 13.20 When the Committee pointed out several of her exact conversations on payment of bride for spectrum allocation of portfolio in the Union Cabinet, she simply replied that she did not recollect any thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n 13.21 The Committee then desired to know that after she was made witness by the CBI, the investigating agency must have played the tapes to her and whether she agreed with the conversation or contradicted it.\u00a0 In response Ms. Radia stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSir, the matter is sub-judice\u201d.<\/p>\n She further stated:<\/p>\n \u201cI am glad that the investigating agencies went into the details.\u00a0 I am glad that they heard my conversations in the context that they needed to be heard.\u00a0 I am glad that they looked at documents and papers that were submitted in the context that had to be given and not taken out of context just because a magazine chose to carry something in a particular way.\u00a0 The magazine would have chosen to carry something in a particular way because we may not entertain the magazine.\u00a0 Today, the media is driven in a completely different way.\u00a0 It is driven bottom-line.\u00a0 It is sensationalist.\u00a0 So, we have taken a view to approach things slightly differently\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.22 The Committee then querried as to whether she meant to say that both the magazines were driven by some extraneous consideration.\u00a0 In reply, Ms. Radia submitted:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI think, there is a conspiracy.\u00a0 I believe, there is a corporate conspiracy and I have seen it\u201d.<\/p>\n Asked to point out the conspirators, she replied:<\/p>\n \u201cAnybody who would not want competition\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.23 The Committee then desired to know whether she was performing a public relation service or actually lobbying for her client to get them certain advantages.\u00a0 The Committee also categorically asked whether carrying Tata\u2019s personal had written letter to Mr. Karunanidhi was to part of her job, according to the mandate.\u00a0 In reply, Ms. Radia submitted:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe are not lobbyists.\u00a0 It is not our job to lobby.\u00a0 Yes, it is our job to talk to various stakeholders, but that does not necessarily mean that we are lobbying for our client.\u00a0 We are simply communicating a point of view\u201d.<\/p>\n On the issue of carrying Mr. Tata\u2019s personal letter, she clarified:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026our role, as defined in our mandate, is to communicate our client\u2019s point of view.\u00a0 Carrying the letter was to hand over the letter to\u00a0 Shri Karunanidhi on behalf of Shri Tata\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n 13.24 Asked to state whether her conversation with Ms. Barkha Dutt did not give an impression that she was lobbying.\u00a0 In response, Ms. Radia stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI think if you listen to the conversation in the context that they need to be listened to, everybody is discussing who is becoming what cabinet minister and what they are doing at that time.\u00a0 I do not think it was anything different from watching TV channels or watching new reports.\u00a0 Giving a particular point of view, we were simply asking information from journalists who were in touch with political people, who were on the political beat, who had information or who may know things because they have been reporting certain things in a particular manner that they seem to know things.\u00a0 All we were doing was just asking information from them\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.25 The Committee then asked whether the conversation did not indicate that Ms. Dutt was leading her up the garden path.\u00a0 Ms. Radia replied:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI do not think that anyone was leading anyone up the garden path.\u00a0 I think, we were just having a conversation about who is becoming the Cabinet Minister and I was relaying to her the anxiety of what our client had lived through in the previous years, prior to that.\u00a0 I think all I was giving her was information as I knew it about a particular person and the chemistry that existed between my client\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.26 On being asked to state categorically and truthfully as to whether the tapes were genuine or not, Ms. Radia submitted:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAt least the tapes that I have heard from the investigating agencies are genuine tapes\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.27 Asked to furnish the list of the conversations that were played to her by the CBI, Ms. Radia deposed:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSir, we will write to the concerned agency and we will ask\u00a0 them, if this is permissible under law.\u00a0 We will also make a reference of the PAC\u201d.<\/p>\n 13.28 The Committee then asked Shri Ratan N. Tata whether he had heard the Radia Tapes.\u00a0 Shri Tata submitted in evidence in the affirmative.\u00a0 Asked to authenticate whether it was his voice in the conversation with Ms. Neira Radia, Shri Tata replied in the affirmative.\u00a0 He also submitted that it was absolutely the voice of Ms. Radia too.\u00a0 When asked to state whether the tapes were manipulated or doctored, Shri Tata replied in the negative\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n 13.35 When the Committee asked Shri Vir Sanghvi and Ms. Barkha Dutt, who also figured in the Radia tapes, about the authenticity of their conversation as published in the magazines, both of them in separate written communication stated that they had challenged, objected and protested against etc.\u00a0 But none of them had so far initiated any legal proceedings.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Committee note that the\u00a0 brazen\u00a0 irregularities in the allotment of 2G spectrum and UAS\u00a0 licences were unravelled\u00a0 by some investigative journalists much before the Radia tapes\u00a0 came into the public domain.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n A journalist who played a stellar role in exposing the irregularities, on being asked about\u00a0 the sources of his information,\u00a0 replied that the information was collected through the RTIs and from some public-spirited insiders.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The publishers\u00a0 of the news magazines who first published the\u00a0 tapes,\u00a0 testified\u00a0 that they were\u00a0 actuated\u00a0 by their journalistic duty to reveal the truth and the irrepressible urge of public interest.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The Committee appreciate the exemplary professional job done by these journalists who despite the imminent possibility of the serious hazards both physical and financial undertook the venture they embarked upon.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n When the Committee sought the response of a senior journalist about these taped conversations he candidly deposed that what they did was utterly unprofessional.\u00a0 He\u00a0 conceded\u00a0 that\u00a0 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the role of media and whistleblowers, the PAC says:<\/h2>\n
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