Several non government organisations along with a string of powerful petitioners came together to fight against corruption and filed public interest litigation in the Supreme Court asking the court to direct the government to cancel all 2G licences and recover the Rs 1.76 lakh crore of exchequer revenue that was lost on account of pricing 2G spectrum in 2008 at 2001 prices.
Main petitioner
Prasanth Bhushan, The Centre for Public Interest Litigation
Co-petitioners
- G M Lyngdoh, former Election Commissioner
- T S Krishnamurthy, former Election Commissioner
- N Gopalaswami, former Election Commissioner
- P Shankar, former CVC
- Julio F Ribeiro, Retired IPS and former DGP, Punjab and DG CRPF
- Admiral (Retd) R H Tahiliani, Mentor, Transparency International India, former Governor and Chief of Naval staff
- Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
- Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, Lok Satta
- Telecom Watchdog
- Common Cause
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To stop corruption all the Indian citizen should come together and fight for there rights.
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