CBI files case against top Reliance officials
The CBI has registered a case against four top officials of Reliance Infocomm when the company was under Mukesh Ambani, for allegedly "masking" incoming international calls as local.

The Bureau has also implicated some officials of the Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam Ltd for complicity.

The top officials named are Manoj Modi, the then director of Reliance Infocomm, Akhil Gupta, the then CEO, A Shankar, the then head of the company's corporate affairs, and Pankaj Panwar, the then head regulator of the company.

Since then all the four senior officials have left the company and three of them are working for Mukesh Ambani.

During the year-long probe, the CBI was also to ascertain the ramifications of the auto-routing of international calls as a national security threat as pointed out by the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT).

The tribunal had slapped a penalty of Rs150 crore on Reliance Infocomm for breaching the licence conditions.
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