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Business Line/ - Markets, Sex, 11 de Maio de 2012
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2G: Apex court to hear govt’s
Presidential Reference from July 10
The Supreme Court today decided to start hearing
from July 10 on Presidential Reference moved by the
Government for its opinion on issues arising out of its
2G spectrum judgment including whether auctioning of
natural resources across all sectors is mandatory.A
five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief
Justice Mr S.H. Kapadia issued notices to the State
Governments and industrial chambers FICCI and CII
and sought their responses on behalf of the private
industries.The Reference has also asked the court for
its view whether the verdict in the 2G case be given
retrospective effect for radio waves granted since
1994.The court also issued notices to the NGO, Centre
for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) and Janata Party
President Subramanian Swamy on whose petitions a
Bench comprising justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K.
Ganguly (since retired) had delivered a judgment on
February 2 cancelling 122 telecom licences by holding
that the first-come-first-served policy was illegal and
unconstitutional.The Bench headed by Mr Justice
Singhvi had held that all natural resources should be
allocated through auction.The Constitution Bench
also comprising Justices Mr D.K. Jain, Mr J.S. Khehar,
Mr Dipak Misra and Mr Ranjan Gogoi said that the
notices shall be served within a period of two weeks to
the parties including by e-mail, fax, courier or by the
messenger of the Union of India.The Bench also said
the notices on the reference will be served on all
States through their standing counsel.It made it clear
that for expeditious hearing of the matter, statements
of fact and arguments shall be filed by the parties in
the court within three weeks.
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