New Delhi, Sept. 8 -- The Special Court at New Delhi has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct further investigation to ascertain the role and conduct of former Additional Secretary SK Das and former Chief Vigilance Officer RG Nadadur in connection with the Antrix Devas Deal. Both were with the Department of Space at the relevant time.

The CBI had in the year 2016 filed a charge sheet in the Antrix-Devas scam pertaining to alleged illegalities in leasing of S-Band, a restricted wavelength of the INSAT satellites to deliver video, multimedia and information services to mobile receivers in vehicles and mobile phones to Devas Multimedia by Antrix, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation.

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