Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 · Chapter IV: Appellate Tribunal
Section 18: Appeal to Supreme Court
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), or in any other law, an appeal shall lie against any order, not being an interlocutory order, of the Appellate Tribunal to the Supreme Court on one or more of the grounds specified in section 100 of that Code.
(2) No appeal shall lie against any decision or order made by the Appellate Tribunal with the consent of the parties.
(3) Every appeal under this section shall be preferred within a period of ninety days from the date of the decision or order appealed against:
Provided that the Supreme Court may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of ninety days, if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from preferring the appeal in time.]
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 14 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 18
- Loop Telecom and Trading Limited v. Union of India and Anr.
- Rojer Mathew v. South Indian Bank Ltd. & Ors.
- Union of India v. Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India Etc.Etc.
- Reliance Telecom Ltd. & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr.
- Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. v. Pawan Kumar Gupta
- Bharti Airtel Ltd. v. Union of India
- Union of India and Anr. v. Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India and Ors.
- Bharti Cellular Limited v. Union of India and Ors.
- James Joseph v. State of Kerala
- Reliance Infocomm Ltd v. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. & Ors.
- Hotel & Restaurant Association and Anr. v. Star India Pvt. Ltd. and Ors
- Bharti Telenet Ltd. v. Union of India and Ors.
- Cellular Operators Association of India and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.