The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sought the opinion of Goolam Vahanvati, the Attorney General of India, on the issue of cancelling six licences of Adonis Projects, Unitech Wireless’ subsidiary.

DoT has asked the Attorney General several questions, including whether the effective date of any change in a company’s memorandum of association (MoA) was from when the company’s board cleared it or when the Registrar of Companies issued a certificate. Prior to this, DoT had sought the opinion of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the Ministry of Law and Justice on this subject.

In its report on the 2G spectrum issue, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India had alleged that the company was not eligible at the time of applying for mobile licences because its MoA did not include telecom-related activities. Since a company cannot act beyond the scope of its MoA, DoT had rejected the licence requests of a few companies but had issued six licences to Adonis Projects, which later got merged into Unitech Wireless.

DoT has also asked Vahanvati to comment on the effective date of paid-up equity capital.