Amar Singh has proved that he is the most unflinching friend of Anil Ambani. When the whole of India was standing with Anna Hazare in his crusade against corruption and when the politicians were wary to face the media, he came out floating against the current and framed some very serious charges against Shanti and Prashant Bhushan. This was to deter the court probing the 2 G scam so as to save Anil Ambani from being arrested. And this is what happened also. Anil Ambani is indebted to Amar Singh for life. 

The most interesting aspect of the Amar Singh story is that nobody could ever fathom his intent while he was busy exposing the Bhushans alluding to the Media CD that supposedly contained a conversation in which Shanti Bhushan was heard saying that his son manages things well and that they can use their clout with Justice Singhvi. Amar Singh was aiming somewhere else while looking the opposite way. People saw some kind of a sinister plan of Singh to get into Congress and this was what the backdrop of his attack on the Bhushans prima facie even proved. But his was a different plan, something that was most hidden in plain sight. Actually Amar Singh is not such a common persona; had he been so simplistic he would not have acquired the "stature" that he currently enjoys.

Amar Singh was repeatedly targeting Justice Singhvi in his press conferences. But why? Actually, the 2G spectrum case is lying with Justice Singhvi. He was trying to pressurize the judge to spare Anil Ambani. Also Amar has old scores to settle with Justice Singhvi. On the 9th of February an extraordinary incident occurred in the Supreme Court. Amar Singh was pulled up by the Court. Amar Singh wanted to renege on the charges that he had made on Sonia Gandhi in the 2006 illegal phone tapping case. He said in the court that though the ruling party is using its clout illegitimately, he wants to take the charges back. His case was being fought by Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi. The argument that Singhvi gave was that Amar had filed the charges on his own knowledge of facts but now that things have turned out to be spurious he wanted to rescind on the charges. This case was being argued in the bench of Justices Mr. G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly. Justice Singhvi contested this argument saying that personal knowledge is then knowledge of facts that one knows personally and that is why it cannot change over time. The Court maintained that personal knowledge cannot be falsified by ones ownself. The court said that his personal knowledge was spurious and that he had wasted the Court's precious time. Thus Amar was castigated left, right and centre by the court. Perhaps he could not come to terms with this and when the opportunity arose he targeted Justice Singhvi and also saved his friend Anil Ambani from being arrested.

Amar Singh started making charges against the Bhushans just when the CBI was getting ready to file its second chargesheet in the 2G spectrum case. The attitude of Chief Jsutice Kapadia ahad conveyed a sense among the public that howeverso mighty the people who have perpetrated cases of fraud and embezzlement were, they would be brought to the book. Thus it was expected that the CBI might name such big names as Reliance, TATA and Kanimozhi who could also be sent to jail as Raja.

But why is it so that when all the company heads related to the 2 G case are in jail, Anil Ambani is roaming scot free. Why has TATA not been arrested while he has been accessory to the crime as the Radia tapes show? When the sinister conspiracy behind making Raja the Telecom Minister has been unearthed it is a real shocker. Raja was made the Telecom minister by all the lobbying by the corporate honchos using Radia because they already were very clear as to what they wanted from this ministry and something that had been guaranteed earlier by Dayanidhi Maran the ex- Telecom Minister. The Telcos wanted a minister who would be pliable enough not to scuttle their plans. It is a matter of speculation that none of the UPA partners were aware of this scheming.

The Reliance and TATA case has become all the more tortuous. Actually, Ratan Tata is close to the PM and the deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh. Anil Ambani on the other hand is close to Sonia Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee. Now Mukesh Ambani too has joined the fray in defense of his brother. But given the zero tolerance attitude of Justice Kapadia in cases of corruption, none can guarantee that they will not be arrested or tried. An example of this is that the apex court appointed Uday U Lalit as the government lawyer even after vehement protestations by the government. This too was done by the bench comprising of Justice Singhvi. Now the only way the Ambani hotshot could be saved was to pressurize the court. This is precisely what Amar Singh tried to do by targeting the Bhushans and through them Justice Singhvi. And it can surely not be a benign coincidence that the second chargesheet filed by the CBI does not contain Anil Ambani's name not Ratan Tata's. And Amar Singh has been successful in his plans.

Actually the main beneficiariy of the 2G scam has been Anil Ambani. Shahid Balwa promoted Swan Telecom is only the front company of Reliance which was technically not entitled to get a share of the spectrum. Reliance created a number of fake companies which had cross holdings in each other so that the name of the real owner could be hidden in the shrubbery. Tata has been the chief financier of the NGO owned by Kanimozhi but he too has not been named while Kanimozhi has been nailed by the CBI.

What is interesting is that the case of not naming of Ambani and Tata in the CBI charge sheet has now reached the Supreme Court. It has been contended that while the main beneficiary of the scam has been Anil Ambani because he is the Chairman of the company that actually holds majority share in Swan Telecom, why has he been spared. And infact, this case is lying with the bench comprising Justices Mr. Ganguly and Mr. Singhvi. The case has become all the more interesting as an ICICI Bank employee has revealed that any cheque amounting to more than 10 Crores can by rule be signed only by Anil or his wife Tina Ambani. This revelation is sensational against the backdrop of the fact that Reliance, in 2006-07, had transferred 107 crores to Swan Telecom and that 104 Crores had been transferred via a single Bank. Consequently, Anil or Tina would have signed the amount. The 2G case is yet to spring many surprises. The show is not yet over. It is matter of time as to how the Supreme Court responds.