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Three telcos to seek urgent SC hearing as deadline to pay dues nears

Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea Ltd, Tata group want to negotiate with telecom department on the timeframe for paying dues

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Surajeet Das Gupta
Three telecom operators will appeal before the Supreme Court on Monday to allow them and the department of telecommunications work out a timeframe for paying dues they owe the government for Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR).

Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea Ltd and the Tata group will request the court to hear their petition urgently by Tuesday as the deadline for them to pay Rs 1.47 trillion as AGR ends on January 24.

The court, on October 24 last year, had ordered telecom companies to pay their licence fee and spectrum user charges (SUC) dues within 90 days. Failure to pay the