The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Bharti Cellular CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal’s plea challenging a special CBI court’s order, summoning him as an accused in a case relating to additional spectrum to the company in 2002 during the NDA regime.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir agreed to give an early hearing and posted the matter to April 8. Senior counsel Harish Salve told the court that there was an urgency in the matter as Mittal has been summoned to be present in the special court on April 11.
Mittal, whose name was not mentioned in the CBI’s chargesheet as an accused, was summoned by the special court, saying there were ?enough material? to proceed against him in the case.
The chairman in his appeal stated that the court summoning order was ?patently erroneous? and should have waited at least till ?the stage of framing of charges.