Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today dismissed allegations against him as malicious, motivated and defamatory. He said, PILs should not be used to settle personal scores. He was referring to a petition filed by an NGO in Supreme Court against him alleging favour to Reliance Telecom services by imposing less penalty amount. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi today Sibal insisted that the penalty of five crore rupees imposed on RCom for interrupting services briefly was as per the agreement between USO Fund and the private operator and questioned the basis of the NGO's claim that the company should have been fined 650 crore rupees. He termed as unfortunate the allegations that he had over-ruled officials of his ministry, saying the government could not function this way that a minister cannot take a decision because he would be labelled as dishonest and wanting to favour private parties.Giving details of the issue, he said Reliance Telecom services were switched off for whatever reasons in November 2010 and on December 21, a show cause notice was issued to the company threatening imposition of lumpsum amount of 50 crore rupees as penalty for the same. He maintained that the penalty was calculated on the basis of duration of disruption of services (7-45 days) as provided in the agreement between USO Fund and RCom.