A bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and V Kameswar Rao permitted the top accounting body to conduct audit of private telecom companies under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act.
It rejected the separate petitions of Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers and Cellular Operators Association of India filed against the decision of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal on the issue in 2010.
The high court had reserved its order in November 2013, after conducting marathon hearings on the issue where it took on record submissions of the Centre, CAG and the petitioners --
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