New Delhi: The Supreme Court will take up Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia's petition challenging the summons of the CBI special court on Monday in a case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of mobile phone bandwidth during the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance regime in 2002.
Mittal and Ruia were summoned by the court as an accused along with Asim Ghosh, the former head of Vodafone-Essar, and former telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh. Mittal moved the Supreme Court on April 1 for quashing the order against him. Ruia too challenged the CBI court order on April 9.
The court had said that Mittal, Ruia and Ghosh were "prima facie" in "control of affairs" of their companies which were named in the charge sheet by the CBI in the case. Mittal, Ghosh and Ruia were named as the accused because "they represent the directing mind and will of each company", Judge OP Saini had said in his order.
The CBI had filed a charge sheet on December 21, 2012, against Ghosh and three telecom firms - Bharti, Hutchison Max Telecom Pvt Ltd (now known as Vodafone India Ltd) and Sterling Cellular Ltd (now known as Vodafone Mobile Service Ltd). The CBI probe concerns alleged irregularities in allotting mobile spectrum in 2002 during the NDA government. At the time, Pramod Mahajan, now deceased, was telecom minister.
(With Additional Inputs From PTI)
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