{"id":17666,"date":"2012-03-02T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=17666"},"modified":"2012-03-02T15:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:19:17","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-petition-in-vodafone-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-dismisses-petition-in-vodafone-case","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court dismisses petition in Vodafone case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-dismisses-petition-in-vodafone-case\/voda\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17667\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17667\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-dismisses-petition-in-vodafone-case\/voda\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/voda.jpg?fit=264%2C191&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"264,191\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"voda\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/voda.jpg?fit=150%2C108&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/voda.jpg?fit=264%2C191&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17667\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/voda.jpg?resize=264%2C191&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/voda.jpg?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/voda.jpg?resize=150%2C108&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition by advocate M.L. Sharma as &#8220;irresponsible and scandalous&#8221; that alleged conflict of interest over the court&#8217;s verdict in the Rs.11,218 crore ($2.2 billion) tax dispute case of telecom firm Vodafone.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Sharma had alleged in a petition that Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia had not disclosed that his son Hoshnar Kapadia worked with Ernst and Young, a consultant firm that had tendered advice to Vodafone on taxation issues.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma filed the petition after Indian tax authorities filed a review petition in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The case involved a levy on a 2007 transaction in which Vodafone Plc had paid $11.2 billion to Hong Kong-based Hutchison for acquiring a 67 percent stake in Indian telecom services major Hutch Essar.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Supreme Court had ruled in favour of Vodafone saying that Indian officials did not have jurisdiction over a deal between two global companies even if assets involved in that deal were located in India.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar Jan 20 set aside a Bombay High Court order that upheld the tax demand by income tax authorities on account of the said acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>An apex court bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam, while dismissing the petition by Sharma imposed a cost of Rs.50,000 on him for filing &#8220;frivolous&#8221; and &#8220;scandalous&#8221; petition.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Alam also questioned the bonafide of the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition by advocate M.L. Sharma as &#8220;irresponsible and scandalous&#8221; that alleged conflict of interest over the court&#8217;s verdict in the Rs.11,218 crore ($2.2 billion) tax dispute case of telecom firm Vodafone. Last month Sharma had alleged in a petition that Chief Justice S. H. 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