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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) urged the Supreme Court of India connected Friday (September 26, 2025) to perceive a plea filed by Vodafone-Idea challenging a request of much than ₹5,000 crore successful further Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues aft the court’s Dussehra break.
September 26 is the past moving time for the tribunal earlier the break, which would proceed for the full adjacent week.
Need finality of proceedings successful AGR dispute, Supreme Court tells Vodafone Idea, DoT
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai agreed to an oral petition made by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for DoT, to defer the proceeding to October 6, the time the tribunal re-opens.
The caller litigation comes lone months aft the apex tribunal had rejected earlier petitions by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea (VI) and Tata Teleservices seeking alleviation successful the outgo of their involvement connected the dues, punishment and involvement connected the punishment towards their respective AGR liabilities connected the crushed that they were nether terrible fiscal constraints. The apex tribunal had, successful its bid successful May, concluded their pleas to beryllium “misconceived.”
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In fact, the Chief Justice had voiced the request for finality successful the AGR litigation. Exactly a twelvemonth ago, connected September 19, 2024, the Supreme Court had dismissed a curative petition filed by telcos, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, against the court’s October 2019 judgement upholding the DoT’s determination to retrieve AGR of astir ₹92,000 crore from them.
VI has sought the court’s involution connected the further AGR request raised by the DOT for the 2016-2017 period. The institution said the liabilities person already been calculated, and cannot beryllium changed oregon increased. It has urged the tribunal to quash the further DoT request and sought a broad re-assessment and reconciliation of AGR dues for the play till FY 2016-17.
