In an exclusive interview to The Financial Express on Sunday, Sorabjee also denied that his opinion was based on a new set of references from the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) for revenue-sharing regime.

"I have received just one reference seeking my opinion on certain issues relating to the 1994 Telecom Policy and the 1999 Telecom Policy in the middle of April, 1999. "In view of the dissolution of the Lok Sabha and pending Government's intimation to me whether I should proceed to render my opinion, I had kept it on hold. Jagmohan, the then minister of communications, informed me in the first week of May, 1999, that I may proceed to give my opinion," he stressed.

He said that he had, in fact, rushed to India from London in mid-June because of an urgentrequest by the ministry of external affairs to appear before the SC on a matter relating to the Haj Committee. While in India, he also submitted his now famous legal opinion on revenue-sharing for private telecom companies. "It is all a figment of someone's imagination," was how he reacted to a query that he was pressurised into favouring revenue sharing. On the question of doing a volte face on the legality of revenue-sharing after having earlier expressed himself against the same, the attorney general said," there were no contradictions in the my earlier opinion given to the Government on January 6, 1999 and the one given on June 16, 1999".