Thus, the proceedings which will take place from 5 October are not the appeals themselves, but the investigating agencies’ request for the Delhi High Court to agree to reconsider the two judgments by the lower court. Judge Saini had delivered two verdicts on the same day after hearing the matters together: a 1,550 page judgment on the CBI’s case for corruption, forgery, cheating, etc and a 105 page judgment on the ED’s case for money-laundering.
In addition to the politicians, businessmen like the Essar Group’s Ruia brothers, as well as Gautam Doshi from Anil Ambani’s Reliance group, were also acquitted of their alleged roles in the spectrum allocation scandal.
Lawyers for the accused had argued that there was no urgency to take up the case, since the high court was only taking up pending criminal matters where the accused was still in custody, given the inability to conduct…