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Supreme Court disagrees with Tata plea for in-camera hearing in 2G case

The Supreme Court disagreed with Tata Teleservices' plea to conduct an in-camera hearing in the second-generation mobile telephony spectrum case and that the media be restrained from reporting the proceedings.

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The Supreme Court on Monday disagreed with Tata Teleservices' plea to conduct an in-camera hearing in the second-generation mobile telephony spectrum case and that the media be restrained from reporting the proceedings.

Senior advocate Harish Salve, who was waiting to appear for Tata's in another related matter before a Bench of Justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly, made a plea in this regard when allegations were being made against the Tata's during the hearing of the matter in which the CBI probe is being done.

"These (companies) are the large corporations and it affects their reputation. What CBI finds out in probe would be revealed only when the charge sheet is filed. But so many things have come up in the media," Salve said when CBI and advocate Prashant Bhushan were arguing on the matter in which Tata is not a party.

He further said the media should be restrained from publishing documents which are being filed by different parties in the court.

The bench, however, disagreed with his plea saying "open media and open trial are important and we don't want to dilute it".

"Everyone respects the media and all of us presume that the media would behave in a responsible manner.

"The court would not restrain the media and it is expected that it does not behave in a manner to force us to restrain it," the bench said.

The court was hearing a 2G spectrum allocation scam in which it had directed CBI probe and it has been monitoring the investigation.

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