SC notice to Vodafone, Airtel

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from telecom service providers Bharti Airtel Limited and Vodafone Mobile Services on a CBI plea that they were met with “surprisingly and strangely evasive” replies to repeated requests for crucial call data records in connection with the probe into multi-crore ponzi scam cases, including the Saradha group scandal.

A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi issued notice, returnable by April 8, to the two companies.

“This allegation is completely wrong. We have given everything to them,” senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, for Vodafone, submitted.