{"id":225653,"date":"2020-02-14T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=225653"},"modified":"2020-02-18T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:38:56","slug":"lets-wind-up-the-supreme-court-says-a-furious-sc-on-non-compliance-of-its-agr-order-by-telecos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/02\/14\/lets-wind-up-the-supreme-court-says-a-furious-sc-on-non-compliance-of-its-agr-order-by-telecos\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let&#8217;s wind up the Supreme Court&#8221;, says a furious SC on non-compliance of it&#8217;s AGR order by telecos [Full Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>: Taking a strong note of non-compliance of its order asking telecom companies to pay adjusted gross revenue of Rs 1.47 lakh crore to DoT, a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, JJ has issued contempt notice to the telecom companies. The managing directors of Bharti Airtel , Vodafone, MTNL, BSNL, Reliance Communications, Tata Telecommunication and others have been summoned to the court on March 17.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court said that the telecom companies have violated the order passed by this Court in pith and substance as in spite of the dismissal of the Review application, they have not deposited any amount so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cShocked\u201d over the non-compliance of it\u2019s 2019 order, the bench said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt appears the way in which things are happening that they have scant respect to the directions issued by this court.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court also issued notice to a DoT Desk Officer who asked the Attorney General to not insist on payment of dues as directed by the Supreme Court. \u00a0On this, a furious Justice Mishra said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cA Desk Officer of the Department of Telecommunications has the temerity to pass the order to the effect of issuing a direction to the Accountant General, another Constitutional Authority\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Desk Officer had asked the Attorney General<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cnot to insist for any payment pursuant to the order passed by this Court and not to take any coercive steps till further orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court said that this kind of order was nothing but a device to scuttle order of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, in\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\"><strong>Union of India v. Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India,\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/kzt8nW5G\">2019 SCC OnLine SC 1393<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>the bench of Arun Mishra, SA Nazeer and MR Shah, JJ had\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/10\/25\/in-a-big-blow-to-the-telecom-sector-sc-refuses-to-change-agr-definition-full-report\/\">refused to change the definition of gross revenue as defined in clause 19.1 of the licence agreement granted by the Government of India to the Telecom Service Providers<\/a>. It had held,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201cThe definition in agreement is unambiguous, clear, and beyond the pale of doubt, and there is no confusion in the definition of gross revenue, which is the basis for realisation of the licence fee. Licensees have made a futile attempt to wriggle out of the definition in an indirect method, which was rejected directly in the decision of 2011 between the parties and it was held that these very heads form part of gross revenue.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to DoT, Bharti Airtel owes around Rs 23,000 crore, Vodafone Idea Rs 19,823 crore and Reliance Communications Rs 16,456 crore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Union of India v. 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When Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Vodafone, told a bench that the charges are related to the adjusted gross revenue (AGR), a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hot Off The Press&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hot Off The Press","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/news\/hot_off_the_press\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":235177,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/09\/01\/sc-gives-10-years-time-to-telecos-to-pay-agr-dues\/","url_meta":{"origin":225653,"position":3},"title":"SC gives 10 years&#8217; time to Telecos to pay AGR dues","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"September 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: Asking Telecom Operators to make the payment of 10% of the total AGR dues as by 31.3.2021, the 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, SA Nazeer and MR Shah, JJ gave 10 years to the Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) to complete the payment of their AGR dues. \u201cThe TSPs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":221506,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/10\/25\/in-a-big-blow-to-the-telecom-sector-sc-refuses-to-change-agr-definition-full-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":225653,"position":4},"title":"In a big blow to the Telecom Sector, SC refuses to change AGR definition [Full report]","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"October 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: Refusing to change the definition of gross revenue as defined in clause 19.1 of the licence agreement granted by the Government of India to the Telecom Service Providers, the 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, SA Nazeer and MR Shah, JJ has said, \u201cThe definition of revenue has been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Case Briefs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":231051,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/06\/18\/agr-case-dot-withdraws-96-of-agr-dues-of-psus-sc-asks-telecos-to-prove-bonafides-by-paying-reasonable-amount\/","url_meta":{"origin":225653,"position":5},"title":"AGR Case| DoT withdraws 96% of AGR dues of PSUs; SC asks telecos to prove bonafides by paying reasonable amount","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"June 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court: In a major turnaround in the AGR case, with respect to Public Sector Undertakings, the Department of Telecommunication has decided to withdraw the demands which constitute 96% of the of the ?4 lakh crore demand. 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