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Reliance Jio All Set To Get 4G Licences After Supreme Court's Nod

SC Dismisses PIL Against 4G Licences To Reliance Jio
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, reacts during the 2011 spring membership meeting organised by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in New Delhi March 4, 2011. REUTERS/B Mathur (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT)
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Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, reacts during the 2011 spring membership meeting organised by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in New Delhi March 4, 2011. REUTERS/B Mathur (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS HEADSHOT)

NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL filed by an NGO challenging grant of 4G licences to Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL).

A bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur junked the petition of NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), which challenged the government's decision to allow the company to offer voice services on its 4G spectrum.

The apex court, however, asked the government to look into the issue of spectrum usage charge (SUC) but did not pass any order on this.

The PIL, filed in 2014 through advocate Prashant Bhushan, had sought quashing of the permission granted by the Government to Reliance for providing voice telephony on Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum and pitched for a court-monitored CBI investigation in the alleged Rs 40,000 crore scam.

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