Jio submits another legal opinion on satellite spectrum backing auction

New Delhi: Stressing its point of view to auction satellite spectrum, Reliance Jio has submitted to authorities, including regulator Trai, another legal opinion from a former Supreme Court judge who has opined that while there is no mandate, constitutional or otherwise, that natural resource allocation must be only by auction, it is certainly “a more preferable method”.

As per Justice L Nageswara Rao, former judge of Supreme Court, in light of commercial considerations underpinning the allocation of satellite spectrum and sans any social or welfare objectives, any law or rules providing for a method other than auction, raising concerns on its legality, could be found “constitutionally unsound under Article 14 of the Constitution of India.”