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Supreme Court Registry is learnt to have refused to accept the Centre’s plea seeking modification of its 2012 verdict in the 2G spectrum case which had said the State was duty bound to adopt the auction route while transferring or alienating the country’s natural resources.
Sources said the apex court registry termed the plea of the government as ‘misconceived’ and an attempt to seek a review of the judgment in the guise of seeking clarification.
The Registrar refused to receive it as per the provisions of Order XV Rule 5 of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013.
Reacting to the developments on X , former BJP Rajya Sabha MP, Subramanian Swamy wrote,
I am glad the Supreme Court has given a rap on the knuckles of Modi government. It is outrageous that the Modi government wanted a by pass for the law laid down in 2012 in a historic judgment of the Supreme Court on the 2G scam. The greed for kickbacks of Modi govt is sickening.
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) May 2, 2024
‘The Registrar may refuse to receive a petition on the ground that it discloses no reasonable cause or is frivolous or contains scandalous matter, but the petitioner may within 15 days of the making of such order, appeal by way of motion, from such refusal to the Court,’ the SC rule reads.
As per it, the Centre may appeal against the order of the Registrar.
In its judgement delivered on February 2, 2012, the apex court had quashed 2G spectrum licences given to various firms during the tenure of A Raja as the telecom minister in January 2008.
A special court had on December 21, 2017, acquitted Raja, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Kanimozhi and others in the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) cases related to the 2G spectrum allocation.
