Tdsat today dismissed Reliance Infocomm's (RIC) petition challening a penalty of Rs 150 crore imposed on it by the government for routing incoming international calls as local, but the company said it would move the Supreme Court next week against the Tdsat judgement.Rejecting the Reliance plea that it did not violate any licencing norms and rerouting of calls was well within its purview, a three member Tdsat bench, headed by chairman justice D P Wadhwa, dismissed the petition with cost saying the breach has put the "security of the nation in jeopardy."Immediately after the Tdsat judgement, Reliance Infocomm counsel Mukul Rohatgi, whose request for time was rejected by the tribunal, told reporters that "we will challenge the decision in the Supreme Court on monday.The judgement would mean that Reliance would have to pay the penalty of Rs 150 crore immediately.The bench, which also includes members Vinod Vaish and D P Sehgal, said "having regard to all the circumstances, including the subject matter of license, the performance of the license provisions which have been breached, the circumstances in which breach was committed and the consequences of the breach, putting the security of the nation in jeopardy, we do not find it a fit case to be interfered with."Petition is dismissed with cost," it said.
