A special CBI court has dispensed from personal hearing two of the erstwhile Reliance Infocomm’s high ranking executives, Manoj Modi and Akhil Gupta, relating to the alleged masking of international calls as local calls by the company.
The CBI said the company had masked incoming international calls as local ones through one of the three gateways, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai. The calls were put on the public system telephone network as local. According to the charge sheet, the company transmitted over 75.2 million minutes of international long distance calls with manipulated caller line identification between May and September 2004, evading access deficit charges to the tune of Rs 320 million.
Raja Singh, additional chief metropolitan magistrate has adjourned the case to 18 November.
