The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) requesting it to respond to Sanjay Chandra, managing director, Unitech Limited?s request by March 13, 2012, say news reports.
Prior to this, Chandra had asked the High Court to dismiss the order of the special CBI judge pertaining to the framing of charges in the 2G case, on grounds that it was passed in a ?casual and perfunctory manner.?
Chandra had said that the order was passed ?without application of judicial mind? as there was no evidence to show that he had conspired with any official for wrongful financial gain.
The petition stated that there was no evidence that he or his company had paid a bribe for securing the unified access service licence (UASL) and this distinguishes his case from the other individuals indicted in the case.
The trial court had framed charges against Chandra under various provisions of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
It stated that Chandra cheated the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) by obtaining the licences despite the fact that eight of the group companies were not eligible for the licenses on the date of application.
The trial court had observed that it prima facie appeared that Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) was ineligible for 2G licences and it profited by offloading shares immediately after getting licences.
