New Delhi: Videocon-owned Datacom and realty firm Unitech today approached the Delhi High Court seeking vacation of its order which would affect their priority in getting radio frequency waves.

The court on February 13, while hearing Parsvnath's petition, had ordered that seniority of the petitioner would be not be affected if it proved that the Centre s action was illegal in rejecting its application for Unified Access Service Licence (UASL) on the ground that the company's main objective did not include telecom as its business.

It further said that anything done by the Centre with those persons who had applied for grant of UAS licence made after the petitioner (Parsvnath) and had been granted LoIs would be subject to the final outcome of the petition.

Unitech had got eight licences and Datacom got one on applications made after Parsvnath's.

Senior advocate Ashok Desai, appearing for Unitech and Datacom, before Justice Gita Mittal submitted that this order should be vacated as it affects our seniority and the order was passed without giving an opportunity to be heard.

Desai further contended that the order negated the seniority of both applicants in terms of DoT press release dated January 10,2008 which says that seniority would be counted from the date of compliance of terms of LoI and not from the date of applications made in respect of grant of LoI as was interpreted by Parsvnath.
Source : PTI