{"id":1002148,"date":"2026-04-10T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002148"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:37:41","slug":"orissa-hc-quashes-case-against-ril-ambani-in-%e2%82%b9501-phone-row-pulls-up-litigant-lower-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/orissa-hc-quashes-case-against-ril-ambani-in-%e2%82%b9501-phone-row-pulls-up-litigant-lower-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Orissa HC quashes case against RIL, Ambani in \u20b9501 phone row; pulls up litigant, lower court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar: Pulling up a litigant for abusing the criminal justice system, Orissa high court has quashed a criminal complaint against Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its chairman Mukesh Ambani over a faulty mobile handset, imposed a fine of \u20b91,000 on the complainant and criticised a lower court for issuing summons without adequate judicial scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>Justice S K Panigrahi also noted the incongruity in the lower court&#8217;s move seeking to summon the RIL chairman as an accused over a defective mobile handset worth \u20b9501, sold by a dealer in Rourkela more than two decades back. The HC observed that accepting such an approach would mean &#8220;a passenger could summon the railway minister for a delayed train&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar: Pulling up a litigant for abusing the criminal justice system, Orissa high court has quashed a criminal complaint against Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its chairman Mukesh Ambani over a faulty mobile handset, imposed a fine of \u20b91,000 on the complainant and criticised a lower court for issuing summons without adequate judicial scrutiny. Justice S K Panigrahi also noted the incongruity in the lower court&#8217;s move seeking to summon the RIL chairman as an accused over a defective mobile handset worth \u20b9501, sold by a dealer in Rourkela more than two decades back. The HC observed that accepting such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}