The Supreme Court is likely to deliver its verdict on the trials of Sunil Bharti Mittal, the chairman and managing director of Bharti Cellular Ltd and Ravi Ruia, the promoter of Essar Group, in connection with their respective roles in the controversial procurement of 2G Spectrum.
The two had been summoned as accused by a special court hearing the case involving the allocation of additional spectrum in 2002. Their names had not figured in the chargesheet submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation, which was handling the case.
Maintaining there was "enough material" to proceed against them in the case, the special court had summoned them on March 19, 2013.
Mittal and Ruia then approached the Supreme Court, challenging the order.
Mittal maintains through his legal representative that he could not be held "vicariously liable" for a criminal offence of a company unless there was evidence.
Ruia has claimed that he was not connected with the day-to-day affairs of Sterling Cellular Ltd, and added that he had been wrongly summoned.
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In April 2013, the Supreme Court said the hearing against them will remain "postponed" until further orders.
The case relates to alleged irregularities in allocation of additional spectrum - 10 Mhz instead of 6.2 Mhz - during the NDA rule.
Earlier, the lower court had also summoned Asim Ghosh, the then Managing Director of another firm that was allegedly involved-Hutchison Max Telecom Private Limited.