{"id":32046,"date":"2014-02-04T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T06:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=32046"},"modified":"2014-02-04T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T06:59:38","slug":"sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit","title":{"rendered":"SC notice on telecom operators&#8217; plea against CAG audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/cbi-probe-recommended-against-yeddyurappa-kin\/supreme-court-211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19702\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19702\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cbi-probe-recommended-against-yeddyurappa-kin\/supreme-court-211\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"135,144\" 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=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?fit=135%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19702 alignright\" alt=\"supreme court\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png?resize=135%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"135\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government and the Comptroller and Auditor General on a plea by the telecom companies challenging the auditing of their account books by the official auditor.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing notice to the government and the CAG, a bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Vikramajit Sen declined to put on hold the Delhi High Court verdict that had rejected the telecom companies&#8217; plea challenging the department of telecommunications&#8217; decision to audit their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing for the telecom companies, senior counsel Harish Salve told the court that the high court verdict was wrong as it was not the mandate of the CAG to audit the accounts of the telcos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will have to consider this,&#8221; the court said as Salve told the court that the high court has said that under the revenue sharing model, the telecom companies are account keeper for the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no problem with the DoT or special audit but the division bench raises one notch. It says it shall be the duty of the the CAG (to audit telecom companies accounts),&#8221; Salve told the court.<\/p>\n<p>As the court declined to stay the operation of the high court&#8217;s January order, Salve urged the court to tell the government not to take any coercive steps against the telecom companies.<\/p>\n<p>Allaying the apprehension that government might take any coercive steps, Additional Solicitor General Paras Kuhad told the court that it would take four to five months before report on the auditing of the telecom companies account was finalized and tabled in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The court directed the listing of the matter Feb 11.<\/p>\n<p>The high court held that CAG can audit that part of telecom companies account from which money goes to the consolidated fund of India under revenue sharing arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government and the Comptroller and Auditor General on a plea by the telecom companies challenging the auditing of their account books by the official auditor. Issuing notice to the government and the CAG, a bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Vikramajit Sen declined to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[523,3025,2222,21377,47765,27734,47774,27735,23371],"class_list":["post-32046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-cag","tag-comptroller-and-auditor-general","tag-justice-k-s-radhakrishnan","tag-justice-vikramajit-sen","tag-news","tag-sc-notice-on-telecom-operators-plea-against-cag-audit","tag-todays-news","tag-todays-top-news_","tag-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC notice on telecom operators&#039; plea against CAG audit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SC notice on telecom operators&#039; plea against CAG audit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC notice on telecom operators&#039; plea against CAG audit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SC notice on telecom operators&#039; plea against CAG audit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-04T06:59:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/supreme-court3.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5bed6309aad9141bf373167e6730d0fc\"},\"headline\":\"SC notice on telecom operators&#8217; plea against CAG audit\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-04T06:59:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit\"},\"wordCount\":310,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/sc-notice-telecom-operators-plea-cag-audit#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.in\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/04\\\/supreme-court3.png\",\"keywords\":[\"CAG\",\"Comptroller and Auditor General\",\"Justice K.S. 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