Reliance ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani will have to appear as a CBI witness in the 2G scam case with the Supreme Court today refraining from passing any order and the trial court dismissing a plea for deferring his deposition scheduled on Thursday.
In an attempt to get an interim order for exempting Ambani from appearing in the case, Reliance Telecom Ltd had made an oral plea before an apex court bench headed by Justice G.S. Singhvi.
The court said the plea will be considered only after it decides the petitions recalling two of its earlier orders barring High Court from hearing 2G cases.
Having failed to get any relief from the apex court, a battery of senior lawyers including Ram Jethmalani and Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for different accused, immediately rushed to the trial court for postponement of examination of Ambani and his wife Tina Ambani.
The trial court, which had earlier postponed the examination of Anil Ambani, dismissed the plea of the accused firm saying no prejudice would be caused to any accused by examination of these witnesses.