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New Delhi, Dec. 10 The Government on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that the allegation of a scam in spectrum allocation to new players was baseless. It said that the allegations were being made at the behest of some existing telecom companies who do not want entrants in the sector.

The Government was responding to a petition challenging its policy of allocating spectrum on the first come first served basis.

“It seems that the petitioner is acting (at) the behest of parties who shall have competition from the new entrants in the market. This is with an ulterior motive of stalling competition. The allegation that there is a scam of several thousand crores is totally false and has been made only to embarrass the Government of India,” the government said in its 48-page affidavit filed at the Delhi High Court.

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