2026 INSC 174
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REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL No. 12219 OF 2018
Union of India … Appellant
versus
Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited … Respondent
J U D G M E N T
SANJAY KUMAR, J
1. By order dated 10.05.2018, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and
Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi, disposed of Telecommunication Petition No.
63 of 2016 filed by the respondent, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited,
purportedly implementing certain directions of this Court, as per its own
interpretation. Aggrieved by such interpretation, the Union of India through
its Department of Telecommunication (DoT), filed the present appeal.
2. In substance and in effect, this appeal turns upon the judgment dated
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 ...