According to a statement of a prosecution witness in the 2G spectrum allocation case made on Thursday to a Delhi court, the real estate firms are nit barred from applying for licenses as per the Unified Access Service Licenses guidelines. Mr. V Mohan, Company Secretary of Parsvnath Developers Ltd. which had applied for the UAS license in 22 circles in August,2007 told the Special CBI judge, O P Saini that when the company applied for the 2G license they had checked the UASL guidelines.
Mr. Mohan disclosed that in August 2007, the real estate agents had made applications to the Department of Telecom (DoT) for licenses as they tried to venture into the telecom business. He further added that their application was rejected by DoT and they weren’t issues any license.
He said that he was aware about the August 2007 recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and for that purpose they knew that the fee for grant of pan-India UAS license was Rs. 1,658 crores. He added that the main ground stated by DoT for rejection of application for license to the real estate agents was that telecom business was not in the object clause of the firm at the time of making its application. Such rejection was challenged by the firm before the Delhi High Court.
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