Accused Essar Teleholdings and Loop Telecom Tuesday withdrew from the Delhi High Court a plea that their case be shifted from a CBI special court hearing the 2G case to a magistrate as there was no corruption charge against them.<\/p>\n
The companies withdrew the plea as they have moved the Supreme Court over the issue.<\/p>\n
The division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice V.K. Jain allowed the companies to withdraw the case and said: “Writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn.”<\/p>\n
The high court had earlier asked Essar Teleholdings, Loop Telecom and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek a clarification from the apex court whether it could proceed with the hearing on their petition.<\/p>\n
No case other than the one filed under the anti-corruption law could be heard by the trial court judge as it was beyond his jurisdiction, said counsel appearing for a company.<\/p>\n
The petitioners contended that their case could be tried by a magistrate as there was no corruption charge against them, but the special judge relied upon an administrative order issued by the high court.<\/p>\n
The high court passed an administrative order by which the special court was constituted March 15 last year to exclusively hear the 2G case.<\/p>\n
The third set of formal charges filed by the CBI in the case also said that the offences alleged against the companies could be tried by a magistrate as they had not been chargesheeted under the Prevention of Corruption Act, said counsel for one of the companies.<\/p>\n
The CBI Dec 12, 2011 filed a third charge sheet against Loop promoters and the Essar Group for criminal conspiracy and cheating.<\/p>\n
The fresh set of charges contended that the Essar Group used Loop as a front company to acquire telecom licences in 2008. Essar, which already had a 33 percent stake in Vodafone, held substantial equity in Loop and thus violated telecom licence norms, the charge sheet said.<\/p>\n
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