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WSJ: India Court Sends Five Telecom Executives to Custody

Wall Street Journal | April 20, 2011 | R. JAI KRISHNA And RUMMAN AHMED

NEW DELHI – A special court, citing “incriminating evidence,” Wednesday denied bail to five senior telecom industry executives as India’s top federal investigative agency continued with its efforts to unravel one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history.

The five executives–including three from a unit of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani-headed Reliance Communications Ltd.–were sent to judicial custody, which means that they will be kept in jail and produced in court when necessary.

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