Supreme Court has asked CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to respond on an application which has sought a direction to stop Aircel-Maxis from allegedly selling allotted spectrum to Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications claiming it would allow Maxis to escape law and abscond with crores of rupees. <br/><br/>A bench of Justices JS Khehar and Arun Mishra yesterday asked both the probe agencies to file their reply within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on January 6 next year.<br/><br/>The application has been filed by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, which has also sought directions to attach the properties and spectrum of Aircel.<br/><br/>Both CBI and ED have already filed separate charge sheets in Aircel-Maxis deal case and have named former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others as accused. It has been alleged that Marans had coerced C Sivasankaran, then owner of Aircel, to sell his shares to T Ananda Krishnan, who was the promotor of Malaysian company, Maxis.

Supreme Court has asked CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) to respond on an application which has sought a direction to stop Aircel-Maxis from allegedly selling allotted spectrum to Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications claiming it would allow Maxis to escape law and abscond with crores of rupees. <br/><br/>A bench of Justices JS Khehar and Arun Mishra yesterday asked both the probe agencies to file their reply within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on January 6 next year.<br/><br/>The application has been filed by NGO, Centre for Public<br/>Interest Litigation, which has also sought directions to attach the properties and spectrum of Aircel.<br/><br/>Both CBI and ED have already filed separate charge sheets in Aircel-Maxis deal case and have named former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi and others as accused. It has been alleged that Marans had coerced C Sivasankaran, then owner of Aircel, to sell his shares to T Ananda Krishnan, who was the promotor of Malaysian company, Maxis.