No intention to seek change of 2012 spectrum ruling, only to inform top court, says govt
Supreme Court order of 2012, which ruled that frequencies had to be auctioned as they were a national resource, a senior official said.
“We just wanted to keep the court informed. That purpose is served. There was no prayer to change the judgement,” the official said.
The Supreme Court registrar last week didn’t accept the government’s plea for allowing the administrative allocation of spectrum in some special cases.
The registrar said the government was seeking a review of the 2012 order in the 2G case “in the guise” of seeking clarifications and said the move was “misconceived”, adding that there was no “reasonable cause” for entertaining the plea and that too after a lengthy period of time.
“I refuse to receive the present miscellaneous application (MA), as it does not disclose any reasonable cause for being entertained,” Pavanesh D, registrar, judicial listing, said in the order that ET has seen. “Accordingly, it is declined to be received under the provisions of Order XV Rule 5 of the Supreme Court Rules, 2013.”
The statement elaborated on the reasons for this.
“From a perusal of the prayer made in the MA, it is clear that the applicant intends to seek for review of the order passed by the SC in the guise of filing the present application,” it read.
“When the application is considered keeping in mind the principles laid down by this court, supra, it is clear that the same is not maintainable and it does not disclose any reasonable grounds to be entertained,” the statement said.
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