Supreme Court has asked CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to respond on an application which has sought a direction to stop Aircel-Maxis from allegedly selling allotted spectrum to Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications claiming it would allow Maxis to escape law and abscond with crores of rupees.
A bench of Justices JS Khehar and Arun Mishra yesterday asked both the probe agencies to file their reply within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on January 6 next year.
The application has been filed by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, which has also sought directions to attach the properties and spectrum of Aircel.
Both CBI and ED have already filed separate charge sheets in Aircel-Maxis deal case and have named former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others as accused. It has been alleged that Marans had coerced C Sivasankaran, then owner of Aircel, to sell his shares to T Ananda Krishnan, who was the promotor of Malaysian company, Maxis.