Infocomm call routing case: DoT files caveat in SC
Saturday, March 5 2005 18:40 Hrs (IST) - World Time - 
New Delhi:
Government today (Mar 5, 2005) filed a caveat in the Supreme Court pre-empting Reliance Infocomm's move to get an ex-parte relief against the TDSAT order upholding the Rs 150 crore penalty imposed by the Department of Telecom (DoT) on the private operator for routing international calls as local ones.
When contacted, DoT officials said the department had moved the apex court in anticipation of Reliance Infocomm challenging the TDSAT order in the Supreme Court.
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The development comes a day after Reliance received a major blow when telecom appellate tribunal TDSAT dismissed its petition challenging Rs 150 crore penalty imposed on it by Government and termed as "unscrupulous" the method employed by the company to camouflage international calls as local calls.
Immediately after the rejection of its petition in the tribunal, Reliance Infocomm counsel Mukul Rohtagi had said, "We will challenge the decision in the Supreme Court on Monday", while sources in the company when contacted said, the issue is still being debated on how to proceed on this, indicating that one of options could be considered is to pay up the fine.
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"The method Reliance Infocomm employed to camouflage an international call was certainly unprincipled and, if we may say so, unscrupulous," a Bench comprising chairperson Justice D P Wadhwa and members Vinod Vaish and D P Sehgal had said in a 90-page order.
PTI
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