New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear Reliance Telecom's plea challenging the order by a lower court on July 19 summoning it's chairman Anil Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani to depose as witnesses in the 2G spectrum allocation case. The plea will be heard by a special bench, comprising justices Singhvi and K S Radhakrishnan, which is hearing all the matters pertaining to the 2G scam.
The lower court on Saturday had issued fresh summons to the couple after Ambani, who was scheduled to depose before it on Friday, had sought exemption from personal appearance on the ground that he has "pre-scheduled" business engagements.
According to the court sources, special CBI judge OP Saini has taken on record the list of witnesses to be called for recording of evidence submitted by the agency and issued fresh summons to them. Besides Anil and Tina Ambani, the CBI has given the names of Reliance Energy Ltd officials Anita Gokhale and Kamalkant Gupta, CFSL experts Deepak R Handa and Vijay Verma and also a metropolitan magistrate.
The court had on July 19 allowed CBI's plea to make Anil and Tina Ambani prosecution witness in the case as their testimonies may throw light on alleged investment of over Rs 990 crore by his group companies in Swan Telecom, facing trial in the case along with its promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka. It had said that CBI's plea to summon Ambani, his wife and 11 others as prosecution witnesses was essential for arriving at a just decision in the case.
(With additional inputs from PTI)
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