2G scam: SC exempts Sunil Mittal, Ravi Ruia from personal appearance - Firstpost

Would you like to make Firstpost your default homepage?   Yes | No The Supreme Court today exempted Bharti Airtel CMD Sunil Mittal and  Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia from personal appearance in a trial court in connection with a 2G spectrum allocation case. The apex court formally issued a notice on Mittal's plea and asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit its reply within four weeks. A new bench was constituted in the Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear the petitions of Mittal and in a case of alleged irregularities related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum in 2002. Justice SS Nijjar would be the new judge sitting with Chief Justice Altamas Kabir to hear the matter on April 29. Justice Vikramajit Sen had on April 15 and Justice AR Dave had on April 18 recused themselves from hearing the matter. Bharti Airtel CMD Sunil Mittal. Reuters Both the judges had opted out from hearing the matter without giving any reason. Mittal and Ruia have challenged the summons issued to them as accused in the case by the trial court. The CJI had earlier said a new bench will be constituted to hear the matter and in the meantime, the proceedings pending before the trial court will remain "postponed" for another week. During the earlier hearing, CBI had said the matter should be referred to another bench headed by justice GS Singhvi, which has been monitoring the development into the investigation into the 2G spectrum scam and cases arising out of its probe. The bench headed by justice Singhvi had ordered the CBI probe into the allocation of 2G spectrum when A Raja was Telecom Minister and additional spectrum issued in 2002 during NDA rule when late Pramod Mahajan was Telecom Minister. Mittal and Ruia had appeared before the trial court on April 16 in pursuance to the apex court's earlier order and also furnished personal bonds which were accepted by Special CBI Judge OP had Saini. With inputs from PTI Firstpost encourages open discussion and debate, but please adhere to the rules below, before posting. Comments that are found to be in violation of any one or more of the guidelines will be automatically deleted: Personal attacks/name calling will not be tolerated. This applies to comments directed at the author, other commenters and other politicians/public figures Please do not post comments that target a specific community, caste, nationality or religion. While you do not have to use your real name, any commenters using any Firstpost writer's name will be deleted, and the commenter banned from participating in any future discussions. Comments will be moderated for abusive and offensive language. via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE2z7SS5H2E3UAzGBqN1FWCFhVlSA&url=http://www.firstpost.com/business/2g-scam-sc-exempts-sunil-mittal-ravi-ruia-from-personal-appearance-731241.html

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