Norway prime minister concerned about Telenor's case in India

Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is worried that Norwegian mobile operator Telenor may be wrongly penalised in India's second-generation mobile telephony spectrum licensing graft scandal, he told said on Wednesday.

Telenor has denied any responsibility in the row, saying that any potential wrong doing took place before it bought its Indian mobile licences from Unitech in late 2008.

"We are concerned that Telenor should not be penalised for things they are not responsible for," Stoltenberg said in an interview on the sidelines of a party congress in Oslo.

"It is unreasonable that they should be harmed by the errors others have committed in India. That's what I've told  Indian authorities and we will continue to express this." Stoltenberg said he had confidence that the Indian legal system would handle Telenor's case "in an orderly manner".