{"id":932084,"date":"2025-05-20T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932084"},"modified":"2025-05-20T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:41:09","slug":"sc-dismisses-vodafone-idea-bharti-airtel-petition-on-agr-relief-calls-it-shocking-deems-it-misconceived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/20\/sc-dismisses-vodafone-idea-bharti-airtel-petition-on-agr-relief-calls-it-shocking-deems-it-misconceived\/","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel petition on AGR relief; calls it  \u2018shocking\u2019, deems it \u2018 misconceived \u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of India on Monday dismissed the writ petition by telecom major Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel seeking exemption of interest on Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues, a report by CNBC TV18 confirmed. A bench led by Justice JB Pardiwala called the petition \u2018shocking\u2019 and deemed it \u2018misconceived\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>The telecom giants had filed petitions seeking a waiver of interest, penalty, and interest on penalty related to their AGR dues. The ruling came just a day after Vodafone Idea sought a waiver of Rs 45,457 crore in AGR-related dues to ensure its survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of India on Monday dismissed the writ petition by telecom major Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel seeking exemption of interest on Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues, a report by CNBC TV18 confirmed. A bench led by Justice JB Pardiwala called the petition \u2018shocking\u2019 and deemed it \u2018misconceived\u2019. The telecom giants had filed petitions seeking a waiver of interest, penalty, and interest on penalty related to their AGR dues. The ruling came just a day after Vodafone Idea sought a waiver of Rs 45,457 crore in AGR-related dues to ensure its survival.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932084","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=932084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}