{"id":1030448,"date":"2026-08-22T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030448"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:28:35","slug":"sc-sets-aside-order-allowing-dayanidhi-marans-plea-to-summon-telecom-secretary-as-court-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/22\/sc-sets-aside-order-allowing-dayanidhi-marans-plea-to-summon-telecom-secretary-as-court-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"SC sets aside order allowing Dayanidhi Maran&#8217;s plea to summon telecom secretary as court witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday set aside an order of the Madras High Court which directed the trial court to summon the Union Telecom Secretary as a court witness in a case against DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran relating to the alleged setting up of &#8220;illegal&#8221; telephone exchanges. <\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Justices KV Viswanathan and Arun Palli was hearing a plea filed by the CBI challenging the March 25 order of the high court. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that we are inclined to restore the order of the trial court, we permit the respondent (Maran) to summon the secretary telecom as a defence witness as indicated in our August 10 order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday set aside an order of the Madras High Court which directed the trial court to summon the Union Telecom Secretary as a court witness in a case against DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran relating to the alleged setting up of &#8220;illegal&#8221; telephone exchanges. A bench comprising Justices KV Viswanathan and Arun Palli was hearing a plea filed by the CBI challenging the March 25 order of the high court. &#8220;Now that we are inclined to restore the order of the trial court, we permit the respondent (Maran) to summon the secretary telecom as a [&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-1030448","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\/1030448","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=1030448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030449,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030448\/revisions\/1030449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}