A Salve for taxing moment: The Vodafone Inside Story

Samar Srivastava, KP Narayana Kumar/Forbes India

How Vodafone won the tax case: The inside story of the courtroom battle The court hearings had gone on through all of August. On September 8, 2010, the Bombay High Court was packed to the rafters with newspaper reporters of all hues. There was a battery of lawyers representing the Government of India and telecom giant Vodafone. There were two judges who had been hearing the famous Vodafone tax case: D.Y. Chandrachud and J.P. Devadhar. Though Devadhar was in Nagpur that day, he was