Bombay high court bins government’s 12 retrospective spectrum charge; telecom companies get relief
MUMBAI: In a relief to cellular service operators, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, the Bombay HC quashed the Centre’s one-time spectrum charge imposed unilaterally in 2012, from 2008 onwards, reports Swati Despande.Govt can’t retrospectively alter the financial terms of telecom licences years after they had been granted, said a division bench of Justices Manish Pitale…