No intention to seek change of 2012 spectrum ruling, only to inform top court, says govt

The government, through its application over spectrum allocation before the Supreme Court, merely wanted to highlight possible future exceptional circumstances for allocating bandwidth administratively, and did not have any intention of seeking a change in the top court’s order of 2012 mandating auction for bandwidth allocation, top officials said.

The Supreme Court registrar last week did not accept the government’s plea for allowing the administrative allocation of spectrum in some special cases. The registrar said the government was seeking a review of the 2012 order in the 2G case “in the guise” of seeking clarifications and said the move was “misconceived”. There was no “reasonable cause” for entertaining the plea and that too after a lengthy period of time, the registrar said.