కేంద్రానికి చుక్కెదురు.. 'ఆర్కామ్'కు రూ.104 కోట్లు రీఫండ్!

టీడీఎస్ఏటీ తీర్పును సవాల్ చేస్తూ కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం దాఖలు చేసిన పిటిషన్ను సుప్రీంకోర్టు కొట్టివేసింది. రిలయన్స్ కమ్యూనికేషన్స్కు సుమారు రూ.104 కోట్లను తిరిగి చెల్లించాలని టీడీఎస్ఏటీ ఇచ్చిన ఉత్తర్వులను ఇప్పుడు అమలు చేయాల్సి ఉంటుంది.

Published : Jan 7, 2020, 12:19 PM IST

రిలయన్స్ కమ్యూనికేషన్స్కు సుమారు రూ.104 కోట్లను తిరిగి చెల్లించాలని టీడీఎస్ఏటీ ఇచ్చిన ఉత్తర్వులను సవాల్ చేస్తూ కేంద్రం వేసిన పిటిషన్ను సుప్రీంకోర్టు తిరస్కరించింది.

కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం దాఖలు చేసిన వ్యాజ్యానికి ఎలాంటి విచారణ యోగ్యత లేదని న్యాయమూర్తులు జస్టిస్ ఆర్ఎఫ్ నారిమన్, జస్టిస్ ఎస్ రవీంద్ర భట్లు సభ్యులుగా గల ధర్మాసనం పేర్కొంది.

టెలికాం వివాదాల పరిష్కారం, అప్పిలేట్ ట్రైబ్యునల్ (టీడీఎస్ఏటీ) 2018 డిసెంబర్ 21న ఆర్కామ్కు అనుకూలంగా తీర్పు వెలువరించింది. బ్యాంకు గ్యారెంటీగా ఉంచిన రూ.908 కోట్ల నుంచి రూ.774 కోట్ల స్పెక్ట్రం ఛార్జీలను మినహాయించుకోవాలని.... ఆర్కామ్కు రూ.104 కోట్లు తిరిగి చెల్లించాలని కేంద్రాన్ని ఆదేశించింది.

టెలికాంశాఖ ఇప్పటికే రూ.30.33 కోట్లు సర్దుబాటు చేసింది.

ఇదీ చూడండి: షియోమీ ఎంఐ 10, ఎంఐ 10 ప్రో స్పెక్స్ లీక్!

టెలికాంశాఖ ఇప్పటికే రూ.30.33 కోట్లు సర్దుబాటు చేసింది.

ఇదీ చూడండి: షియోమీ ఎంఐ 10, ఎంఐ 10 ప్రో స్పెక్స్ లీక్!

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART MUST CREDIT ZIA GHAFOORI, PART MUST CREDIT U.S. ARMY
SHOTLIST:
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Charlotte, North Carolina – 13 August 2019
1.Various of American flag on Ghafoori's home
2. Various of Ghafoori playing with children
3. Wide shot of Ghafoori
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Zia Ghafoori, Former Afghan Interpreter:
"I'm going to the United States. Now I can save my kids."
5. Various of kids playing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zia Ghafoori, Former Afghan Interpreter:
"If you were working for the Americans, you were called infidel."
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Date/location unknown
7. STILLS of Ghafoori in Afghanistan
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Charlotte, North Carolina – 16 December 2019
8. STILL photo of Ghafoori holding his Purple Heart
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Southern Pines, North Carolina – 6 September 2019
9. SOUNDBITE (English) David Smyth, U.S. Army, retired:
"The danger they went through. The fact that they laid their lives on the line for your fellow Americans."
10. Wide of David Smyth
11. Video of photo of Smyth in uniform
12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Smyth, U.S. Army, retired:
"If anyone deserves to come to the United States, its these Afghan interpreters."
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Charlotte, North Carolina – 1 October 2019
13. Close of Skype with interpreter
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Unidentified Afghan interpreter:
"I put my life at risk and also my family's life in order to help the people of Afghanistan, our country, as well as the US armed forces because they came from too far away to help us."
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Washington – 11 March 2019
15. STILL photo of US Capitol building
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Washington – 9 March 2009
16. STILL photo of State Department
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Wardak Province, Afghanistan – 7 August 2009
17. STILL photo of Afghan interpreter
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Southern Pines, North Carolina – 6 September 2019
18. SOUNDBITE (English) David Smyth, U.S. Army, retired:
"I don't think it will be long before the Taliban takes over Afghanistan again. And if that happens, these guys are all targets and their entire families. So really we need to move with a sense of urgency."
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Jalalabad, Afghanistan – 19 August 2019
19. Various of damage after explosion
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Jalalabad, Afghanistan – 18 October 2019
20. Various of wounded in hospital after attack
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Kabul, Afghanistan – 13 November 2019
21. Various of damage after explosion
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Charlotte, North Carolina – 16 December 2019
22. STILL of Ghafoori working in office
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Washington – 30 October 2019
23. STILL of Ghafoori and Green Berets after Medal of Honor ceremony
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Charlotte, North Carolina – 16 December 2019
24. STILL photo of Ghafoori working in office
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Washington – Date unknown
25. STILL of Ghafoori and translator with MOH recipient Ronald Schurer
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Charlotte, North Carolina – 13 August 2019
26, SOUNDBITE (English) Zia Ghafoori, Former Afghan Interpreter:
"I don't want somebody else faced with those problems that I have been faced."
27. Various of Ghafoori playing with his children
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Charlotte, North Carolina – 16 December 2019
28. STILL of Ghafoori outside his home
STORYLINE:
Three boys kicked a soccer ball as their father tended to a tiny scraped knee. "You're strong , " Zia "Booyah" Ghafoori said, scooping up his youngest son.
A red-white-and-blue flag fluttered gently from a pole on their modest two-story home in a quiet Charlotte cul-de-sac. Another American dream was taking shape.
Ghafoori, 35, is an Afghan native who came to the United States with his pregnant wife and three small children in 2014 on a Special Immigrant Visa.
It was his compensation for 14 years as an interpreter for U.S. Special Forces or, as Ghafoori calls them, "his brothers." His nickname, Booyah, came from them.
Ghafoori is working toward U.S. citizenship. He just passed the test. But even without it, he is as proud an American as they come.
While earning the admiration and respect of the U.S. military, Ghafoori's work made him a traitor in the eyes of some of his fellow countrymen.
He came to the United States to escape possible retribution from the Taliban, the Islamic extremist group that has steadily regained power in the country since being ousted by the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Grateful for his good fortune, Ghafoori decided to help fellow interpreters hoping to follow a similar path.
Last year, he launched the Interpreting Freedom Foundation , a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping interpreters navigate the Special Immigrant Visa process and settle in the United States.
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