Centre For Public Interest Litigation vs U.O.I on 23 February, 2018
02.02.2012 of this Court in Writ Petition (Civil) Nos. 423 of 2010 and 10 of
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2011, reported in Centre for Public Interest Litigation and others vs.
Union of India and others1, and the later orders passed by this Court on
applications filed in the context thereof. By the aforestated judgment, this
Court had declared illegal the grant of Unified Access Service licences and
allotment of 2G Band Spectrum to various parties, including the respondent
herein, and quashed the same. However, this Court ordered that this
direction would become operative only after four months. This was not to
benefit the licensees whose licences stood quashed, but in the interest of
the general public who were dependent upon the telecom services offered
by those licensees, so that such services would not be abruptly disrupted.