Within hours of the Supreme Court dismissing the Union government's review petition in the Vodafone case, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid said the government would have to refund money — about Rs. 2,500 crore and interest — to the firm.
“No curative petition to my knowledge ... I suppose government will have to refund Vodafone money,” he said, after a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal.