Supreme Court dismisses AGR review petitions filed by telecom companies

The apex court said that the telcos were at liberty to file curative petitions against the review petition.

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed review petitions of top telecom firms including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea seeking review of its earlier order asking them to pay Rs 1.47 trillion in past statutory dues by January 23 saying it did not find any "justifiable reason" to entertain them.

The apex court had on October 24 ruled that the statutory dues need to be calculated by including non-telecom revenues in what is known as adjusted gross revenues (AGR) of telcos.

A bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra, S A Nazeer and M R Shah in-chamber hearing did not find merit in the review plea