CBI has registered a case in a Delhi
court against Bharti Airtel Ltd, Tata Communication Ltd and Singapore
Telecommunications Ltd for allegedly causing a loss of nearly Rs 48
crore to the govt since 2004 by illegally providing ILD services.All
the three telecom companies have been booked on charges of criminal
conspiracy and cheating under the Indian Penal Code and also under the
Indian Telegraph Act for violating the Department of Telecommunications'
licencing norms.The FIR has been filed in a local court on a complaint of Ministry of Communications and IT..When contacted, Bharti Airtel had no comments to offer while Tata Communications said it would not comment on speculation.The
complaint said it had come to the notice of DoT that there is an
unauthorised/illegal international long distance service provider M/s
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd which was selling unauthorised ILD
services to Indian customers since 2004 without obtaining the requisite
ILD licence from DoT in connivance with Bharti Airtel and Tata
Communications.
It
said the Singaporean company had offered and provided unauthorized ILD
services to the Indian customers without obtaining the requisite ILD
licence from DoT. Report
said the actual loss can be calculated after getting the amount
collected by illegal international long distance (ILD) services provided
from various Indian customers.
CBI has said in the FIR that "facts in the complaint disclose
commission of offences under Section 120-B read with 420 IPC and section
20 of the Indian Telegraph Act against M/s Singapore
Telecommunications, M/s Bharti Airtel Ltd and M/s Tata Communication
Ltd. A regular case has been registered for investigation."
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