CENTER FOR PIL Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The averments made in paragraph 10 of the counter affidavit filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, to the instant application, indicate the names of the accused in RC 22(A)/2011-DLI. The same is extracted hereinunder :

(2.) The charge-sheet dated 29th Aug., 2014, pertains to 2G Spectrum licences, originally awarded to M/s. Aircel Ltd., in Nov., 2006. By the time the licences were awarded, majority shares of M/s. Aircel Ltd., had been transferred to a subsidiary company of M/s. Maxis Communications, Berhad, Malaysia (Accused No.vii). Mr. Ananda Krishna Tatparanandam (Accused No.iv in the aforesaid charge-sheet), is stated to be the controlling owner of M/s. Maxis Group of Companies. The other outstation accused, in the charge-sheet are accused No.iii (Mr. Augustus Ralph Marshall), and accused No.vii (M/s. South Asia Entertainment Holdings Ltd.).

(3.) The predicament expressed in I.A.No.82/2016, and the eventual prayer made therein, emerges on account of non-service of summons on Mr. Ananda Krishna Tatparanandam (Accused No.iv) and M/s. Maxis Communications, Berhad, Malaysia (Accused No.vii), and the other accused referred to above (Accused No.iii and vi).