Law minister M. Veerappa Moily approved the advice on January 26, 2010. The only excuse for the delay in giving legal advice seems to be the fact that on June 8, 2009, the law ministry stated that it had called for the views of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to examine the matter in the "right perspective". Interestingly, the PMO had already referred the matter to the DoT on March 24, 2009, over two months before it was referred to the law ministry.
On March 25, a director in the PMO dealing with telecom, Amit Agarwal, wrote to the DoT asking it to send a suitable reply to Swamy. Raja, subsequently, wrote to Swamy on June 18, 2009, stating that his demand was not justified.
With the Prime Minister yet to reply, Swamy sent reminders to Singh after the CBI registered an FIR in the matter. With the PMO having sought legal advice five months before the registration of the FIR, the subsequent letters by Swamy were also forwarded to the law ministry. Though Swamy had pointed to the CBI case to state that sanction was now a mere formality, the law ministry stated that since Swamy had himself the referred to the CBI probe, the Prime Minister should wait till evidence was collected by the agency.
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