Sadiq Batcha

Sadiq Batcha ( – 16 March 2011) was an Indian entrepreneur and the managing director of real estate company Green House Promoters Private Limited. Sadiq allegedly committed suicide under suspicious circumstances related to the 2G spectrum case in India. Police found a suicide note that read the reason as the excessive media coverage that maligned his image said he felt sorry for A. Raja's plight.

A. Kaliaperumal, A. Raja's elder brother, is the Joint MD (managing director) of Green House Promoters.

The company also indirectly benefited from the 2G spectrum case by acquiring shares of a company that, in turn, became a partner in Shahid Balwa's Swan Telecom. Swan Telecom was one of the beneficiaries of the first-come-first-served policy, which came from the then minister for Telecom in India.

Death Sadiq Batcha is said to have committed suicide at his residence in Chennai on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 (IST). He was found hanged at his home. He was pronounced "dead on arrival" at the Apollo hospital in Chennai at about 1:30 pm. Doctors believe he died of asphyxia. Some believe that this was not a suicide, but that he died from mysterious causes. In a long letter, which started with an apology, he blamed none for his suicide and said he felt sorry for Raja's plight. He expressed his wish to be reborn and wanted his siblings to be happy and his wife and children to stay in Chennai for their education.

Some believe that Batcha had too much information and he was the man who could have given CBI the exact map of the 2G money trail. It is also alleged that he was the link between the 2G money, the underworld and the hawala operators. The CBI wanted names of four very crucial accomplices who helped Batcha rout the money between India and Singapore. These men are alleged to be operatives of the Dawood gang. Sources say the CBI wanted to interrogate Batcha further on this on the Wednesday he was found dead. said he had put in his papers on 3 March, over a fortnight before Batcha's suicide, to contest the Tamil Nadu assembly elections. The Directorate of Public Health has reportedly rejected Dr V Dekal's resignation on grounds of shortage of staff and lack of sufficient notice. Dekal claims that he was only on contract with the Health Department and could, therefore, quit at any time. CBI investigated the case. Professor T D Dogra of AIIMS was consulted by CBI, but in April 2012, Indian media reported that CBI did not find any evidence which could indicate that it was a murder and not a suicide.

The 2G case verdict acquitted all accused. In its ruling in 2017 it cited that "There is no evidence on the record produced before the Court indicating any criminality in the acts allegedly committed by the accused persons."