Reliance Telecom Ltd on Monday moved the Delhi High Court for setting aside the Special Court's order on charge and the consequent charges framed against it in the 2G spectrum case.

The company, in its petition, said the Special Court proceeded to frame charges against the accused including itself “despite there being no material on record justifying the framing of charges.”

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) — in its appeal against the Special Court's order charging it with criminal conspiracy, cheating and abetment — also said that “no case whatsoever, least of all a prima facie case, could be made out” against it and its executives.

The executives accused in the case are Mr Gautam Doshi, Group Managing Director, R-ADAG; Mr Hari Nair, Senior Vice-President, R-ADAG; and Mr Surendra Pipara, Senior Vice-President, R-ADAG.

The company also claimed that neither it nor its executives had any connection with any public servant.

The Special Court had said in its order that Mr Doshi, Mr Nair, Mr Pipara and Reliance Telecom, in pursuance of conspiracy, passed on an ineligible company to (two other accused) Mr Shahid Usman Balwa and Mr Vinod Goenka knowing that it was ineligible on the date of applications and thereby abetted Mr Balwa and Mr Goenka of Swan Telecom (now Etisalat DB) to obtain UAS licences and 2G spectrum.

The company claimed that there was no quid pro quo that accrued to it or its executives specifically in the context of grant of licence or allotment of spectrum. The petition has named the CBI, the Law Ministry, the Department of Telecom and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as respondents.

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