Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday moved a designated CBI court seeking prosecution of former Telecom Minister A Raja in the 2G scam case in which he wants to be appointed as the Prosecutor.

Filing a private complaint in the court of Special Judge Pradeep Chaddah, Swamy made a three-fold prayer which included that his complaint be taken cognisance of and Raja be summoned.

After hearing Swamy, who made the arguments for 30 minutes himself, the Court reserved till January seven its order on whether Swamy’s private complaint is maintainable.

“I am fixing the matter for pronouncement of the order on the maintainability of your private complaint on January 7, 2011,” said Additional Sessions Judge Chaddha.

Swamy also referred to CBI’s communication to him, saying, “Though an FIR has been filed in the scam, no person has been named as an accused.

“This is the reason which forced me to take legal recourse by filing a private complaint,” Swamy contended.

Pressing the court to act on his complaint, Swamy argued that the judge should take cognisance of the massive scam to the tune of Rs 1.76 lakh crore in the allocation of 2G spectrum to various ineligible operators.

“I have got a three-fold prayer,” said Swamy, noting that “the first one is that the court should take cognisance of my complaint against the former telecom minister and issue summons to him.

“The second prayer is that I be appointed as a deemed public prosecutor under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and the investigating agencies such as Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate be directed by the court to assist me in conducting prosecution and in the further investigation into the scam,” Swamy submitted.

The judge sought clarifications from him on the maintainability of his prayers in the case.

Referring to various apex court’s judgements to buttress his arguments, Swamy said, “This court is empowered under the PC Act to declare me as a public prosecutor which would enable me to conduct the prosecution of the accused.”

Giving details about the scam, he said, “The offences were committed on January 11, 2008 during the commission of the act of awarding simultaneously 122 licenses to nine applicants who were able to produce demand drafts of around Rs 1650 crores within 30 minutes of opening the counter at the Sanchar Bhawan.