14 Facts About Radia tapes

The tapes were leaked out to the press, and were eventually published by some media outlets and shown by television channels.

Revelations in the Radia tapes led to accusations of misconduct by many of these people and served a precursor to the 2G scam and a stronger checks for the media.

Niira Radia tapes used to run a public relations firm named 'Vaishnavi Communications' which was the object of CBI investigations.

The tapes appear to demonstrate how Radia attempted to use some media persons to influence the decision to appoint A Raja as telecom minister.

Transcripts of the Radia tapes, referred to the lobbying activity against the reappointment of Dayanidhi Maran to the post of Union IT and Communications minister in the UPA tenure in Indian government.

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The Radia tapes is seen to have made a dent in the image of the media in the country.

Sumnima Udas of the CNN wrote that the Radia tapes revealed that Dutt served as a power brokers for a deal considered to be one of India's biggest ever scams.

Niira Radia tapes has served a legal notice on The Pioneer, on the report titled "Tapped and Trapped" published by the newspaper.

Original Radia tapes are now annexures in a Supreme Court petition seeking Raja's prosecution.

CBI in its affidavit in the Supreme Court in the 2G spectrum allocation case, on 22 November 2010, had stated that Radia tapes will be approached for investigation at an appropriate time.

On 24 November 2010, Niira Radia tapes was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate officials and recorded her statements in relation to the 2G case probe.

Subsequently, it was revealed that while true to their word, the Niira Radia tapes themselves had been leaked to the Indian media by a lobbyist belonging to a powerful business family, connected to other politicians and private companies.

In 2016, in an interview with Hindustan times, Josy Joseph, a highly respected Indian investigative journalist who had received the tapes revealed that the Niira Radia tapes had been leaked to the Indian media, not by the government, but by a source ensconced in a rival lobbying organization, to settle their own internal rivalries.

Radia tapes said that the tapes contained statements by Ratan Tata stating that the Tata group did not pay people under the table, but these segments were not run by media houses.