Loop Telecom and the Essar Group have asked the Delhi High Court to move their case to another court as they have not been charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act, say news reports. The case is currently being heard by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court.

The case will be heard on January 10, 2012.

Meanwhile, the CBI had filed a third chargesheet in the 2G case against both companies? promoters for criminal conspiracy and cheating. However, these companies were not booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The new chargesheet allege that the Essar Group used Loop as a front company to acquire telecom licences in 2008. Essar, which already had a 33 percent stake in Vodafone, held substantial equity in Loop and thus violated telecom licence norms.

The three companies named in the third chargesheet are Essar Teleholdings, Loop Telecom and Loop Mobile India, while the five individuals are the Essar Group’s Anshuman Ruia, Ravikant Ruia and Vikas Saraf, and the promoters of Loop, Ishwari Prasad Khaitan and Kiran Khaitan.