SC rejects telecom firms’ curative petitions on AGR re-computation

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The Supreme Court has dismissed telecom firms curative petitions, including those filed by Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, seeking correction of alleged errors in calculating the adjusted gross revenue (AGR)...

A Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice BR Gavai said no case was made out for exercise of curative jurisdiction of the top court...

On October 24, 2019, the Supreme Court had ruled that the statutory dues needed to be calculated by including non-telecom revenues in what is known as adjusted gross revenues (AGR) of telcos and asked them to pay Rs 1.47 lakh crore in past statutory dues on account of AGR...

On January 16, 2020, it dismissed the review petitions filed by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and others seeking review of its October 24, 2019 order asking them to pay Rs 1.47 lakh crore in past statutory dues on account of AGR...

On July 23, 2021, the top court dismissed pleas of telecom companies, including Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, seeking re-computation of AGR-related dues payable by them as they alleged errors in calculation in their dues...

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New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): The Supreme Court has dismissed the curative pleas of telecom companies seeking correction of alleged errors in the computation of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues payable by them. “Application for listing the Curative petitions in open court is rejected. We have gone through the curative petitions and the connected […]