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The two Supreme Court Judges who delivered the famous 2-G judgment in February 2012 were

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One of the two judges retired the day right after the judgment was pronounced, and the pair had been monitoring the CBI probe since 2010.
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  • Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra
  • Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly
  • Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justice A.K. Ganguly
  • Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad and Justice H.L. Gokhale
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The Correct Option is B

Solution and Explanation

The 2G spectrum case ended on 2 February 2012 with the Supreme Court striking down 122 telecom licences issued in 2008. The Court said that a scarce natural resource had been handed out through an arbitrary first come first served route and ordered auctions instead. The question asks who signed that ruling.

  1. Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra: Justice Singhvi is right, but Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra was not part of this Bench. Half correct is still wrong.
  2. Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly: This is the actual Bench. The pair had been supervising the CBI probe into the spectrum allocations since 2010, and they delivered the final verdict. Justice Ganguly retired the very next day, on 3 February 2012, which makes the date easy to anchor.
  3. Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justice A.K. Ganguly: Justice Kapadia was the Chief Justice of India then, and people often assume the CJI decided such a big case. He did not sit on this Bench.
  4. Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad and Justice H.L. Gokhale: Both were serving judges of the Supreme Court in 2012, but neither heard the 2G matter.

The correct option is (B).

Let's summarize:

  • Case: Centre for Public Interest Litigation v. Union of India, decided 2 February 2012.
  • Bench: Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly.
  • Held: 122 licences cancelled; natural resources must go through a transparent process such as auction.

So the two judges behind the 2G judgment were Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly.

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