New Delhi: In the probe of 2G spectrum case, Supreme Court on Friday gives relief to the chairman and managing director of Bharti Cellular Ltd Sunil Bharti Mittal and the promoter of Essar Group Ravi Ruia. The apex court said that they two will not face trial in a case of allocation of additional spectrum.
The court quashed the CBI special court’s order making the two top telecom executives accused in the case.
The case relates to alleged irregularities in allocation of additional spectrum – 10 Mhz instead of 6.2 Mhz – during the NDA rule.
Notify that they two industrialists had been summoned as accused by a special CBI court hearing the case involving the allocation of additional second 2G spectrum in 2002.
Meanwhile their names had not figured in the charge sheet submitted by the CBI, which was handling the case.
The special court had summoned them on March 19, 2013 while maintaining there was “enough material” to proceed against them in the case.
Challenging the order, Bharti Cellular MD Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ruia had approached the Supreme Court.
The lawyer of Mittal had argued that he could not be held “vicariously liable” for a criminal offence of a company unless there was evidence.
However, lawyer of Ruia had maintained that he was not connected with the day-to-day affairs of the company allegedly involved – Sterling Cellular Ltd – and he had been wrongly summoned.
Bureau Report
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