Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: A Special Court cancelled the non-bailable warrant issued against Kanimozhi after her counsel appeared before the court and apologised.
Earlier during the day, the court had issued a non-bailable warrant against DMK MP Kanimozhi for her non-appearance before it in 2G spectrum case.
Special CBI Judge O P Saini had issued the NBW against her for December 19, noting that neither she nor her counsel had appeared before the court.
"It is 11.30 AM, neither any advocate for Kanimozhi is present nor any application for her exemption from personal appearance has been filed," the judge said.
The matter was fixed for commencement of final arguments in the case and Kanimozhi failed to appear before it.
However, the court later cancelled the NBW while allowing the application of Kanimozhi's counsel who appeared before it at 12.25 PM.
"NBW is hereby cancelled. He (counsel for Kanimozhi) is advised to be careful in the future."
The court fixed December 19 for hearing final arguments as the counsel for the CBI and the accused sought time to advance the arguments.
Besides A Raja and his erstwhile private secretary R K Chandolia, who were present in the court, other accused including former Telecom Secretary Sidharth Behura, Swan telecom promoters Shahid Balwa and Vinod Goenka moved exemption plea through their lawyers which was allowed by the judge.
Others facing trial in the case include Unitech Ltd MD Sanjay Chandra, three top executives of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) -- Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair.
Directors of Kusegaon Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd Asif Balwa and Rajiv Agarwal, Kalaignar TV Director Sharad Kumar and Bollywood producer Karim Morani are also accused in the case.
Besides these 14 accused persons, three telecom firms -- Swan Telecom Pvt Ltd (STPL), Reliance Telecom Ltd and Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Ltd -- are facing trial in the case.
Meanwhile, a Delhi court on Monday fixed December 19 for hearing final arguments in the 2G spectrum allocation case involving former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 15 others.
Special CBI Judge O P Saini, who was scheduled to hear the matter today, deferred the case after counsel for CBI and the accused sought more time.
"Put up for December 19 for final arguments," the judge said.
During the brief hearing, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Anand Grover said that he required some more time to advance his arguments.
The SPP's submission came after Vijay Aggarwal, counsel for Swan Telecom promotor Shahid Balwa, one of the accused asked the court how it can commence final hearing when an application has been moved by CBI for examining more witnesses.
Earlier, on September 10, the court had concluded recording of defence evidence in the case.
The CBI had alleged that there was a loss of Rs 30,984 crore to the exchequer in allocation of 122 licences for 2G spectrum which were scrapped by the Supreme Court on February 2, 2012.
The special judge, who is exclusively dealing with 2G scam cases, had concluded recording of defence evidence in the case in which the CBI had examined 153 witnesses while the accused called 29 witnesses in their defence.
The recording of evidence in the case involving Raja and 16 others had started three years ago on November 11, 2011, after the court had framed charges against the 17 accused named in the first two charge sheets filed by the agency.
With Agency Input
