Delhi High Court refuses to interfere in Aircel-Maxis case

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to interfere in the Aircel-Maxis case as the matter is pending before a special court set up by the Supreme Court. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal declined to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the CBI to move the trial court for "attachment and forfeiture of shares and all the assets of Aircel Ltd", as held by Maxis and its subsidiaries.

It said even if the allegations made in the petition were assumed to have any substance, appropriate steps need to be taken before the special court.

The judges said that if the directions sought in the PIL by a society were granted then it would not only interfere with the proceedings before the trial court, but would also defeat the purpose of the apex court's order by which the special court was set up to deal with the 2G spectrum scam cases. "Hence, we are not inclined to entertain this petition and the same is dismissed accordingly," the bench said, reports PTI.

The petitioner, Society for Consumers and Investors Protection (SCIP), had alleged that the CBI was neither implementing the law nor going after some of the accused in the case. SCIP had sought directions to the CBI to make several subsidiary companies of Maxis Communications as accused in the Aircel-Maxis case, which arose out of the 2G spectrum allocation scam.