The CBI raided the houses of former Communication and Information Technology Minister A Raja in New Delhi and Tamil Nadu and his former aides to investigate the alleged irregularities in the allotment of Unified Access Service Licenses for 2G Spectrum. The Investigating Agency said that incriminating documents have been recovered during raids. CBI spokesperson Vinita Thakur said that no arrests or detentions have been made so far. Apart from A. Raja, the raids were conducted at the premises of former officials of Department of Telecommunication – DOT – at 14 places. They included the premises of Raja's Private Secretary R.K Chandolia, former DOT Secretary Sidhartha Behuria, former Member of Telecommunication K. Sridhar, former Deputy Director General of Access Service Wing of DoT A. K. Srivastava and the Managing Director of Greehnouse Exports in Chennai Sadiqui Basha. The CBI had earlier registered a case on the 21st of October last year against unknown officials and some unknown private persons and companies under the Prevention of Corruption Act. She said that there had been allegations of serious irregularities in giving the licenses to private companies. She said that according to the information received there was a criminal conspiracy between certain officials of the DoT and private companies and persons in awarding the liscences by putting a cap on the number of applicants against the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India – TRAI . The CBI said that licenses were awarded to private companies on the first come first serve basis on 2001 rates without any competitive bidding.