New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday sought permission from a special court here to add 10 more witnesses, including the wife of an accused, in the 2G scam case. It also filed a plea for attachment of transcripts of taped conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and the accused.


The additional witnesses proposed by the probe agency to be presented before Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini include Aseela Vinod Goenka, wife of DB Realty MD Vinod Goenka.

The probe agency also wants Goenka's brother Pramod Goenka and his nephew Yashwardhan Goenka to be made witnesses in the case.

The transcripts of tapes which CBI wants to present in court contain Radia's conversations with former communications minister A. Raja and some industrialists and journalists. The tapes were submitted as part of the evidence in a public suit over the 2G spectrum allotment row.

The court fixed July 14 for its order on the submission made by the CBI.