India, July 6 -- The Aircel-Maxis scam was the invention of the Central Bureau of Investigation in mid-April 2011, when the 2G scam case against former Minister for Telecommunications A Raja was rocking the country. Certain media houses began flashing the name of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, who also fell into the CBI's net. Details of complaints filed by Aircel founder C Sivasankaran, who accused Maran for "arm-twisting" him to sell his company to Malaysian conglomerate Maxis Group, also came in. Those days, on a daily basis, the Supreme Court's 2G Bench was hearing the case, and the Congress-led UPA Government was at the receiving end.

On July 7, 2011, CBI counsel KK Venugopal declared in the apex court that the agency foun...