The Supreme Court today today dismissed a plea for making Finance Minister P Chidambaram a co-accused in the 2G spectrum case.The court said that there is no prima facie material against him of any criminal conspiracy or procuring of any pecuniary gain.

A two judge bench said criminal conspiracy cannot be inferred merely on the suspicion that there was a meeting for taking decision between the officials of department of telecom and two ministers–Raja and Chidambaram.The bench also said there was no prima facie material that Chidambaram got any pecuniary benefit nor was there any material on record to prove that he, as the then Finance Minister, he abused his official position.The judges said that the poor management in allocation of spectrum cannot be said to be a product of criminal conspiracy.

The petition was filed by Janata Party Chief Subramanian Swamy and others seeking a direction for a probe against Chidambaram and for making him a co-accused along with former Telecom Minister A Raja in the case.
Earlier ,Special CBI Judge O P Saini had held that Chidambaram had not indulged in any criminal conspiracy or derived any pecuniary advantage in the decisions taken with Raja.