Besides Malaysian tycoon T. Ananda Krishnan, the case involves former Indian Telecoms Minister Dayanidhi Maran and Kalanithi, his brother, said livemint.com in a report.

The court set the September 6 date on the Aircel-Maxis deal a day after the High Court in New Delhi refused to intervene in the CBI probe.

The Maran brothers moved separate petitions, on March 16 last year, challenging the jurisdiction of the special court on the Aircel-Maxis deal.

Besides the Maran brothers, the court has also summoned Ananda and Augustus Ralph Marshall, another Malaysian, as accused in the case.

It has also summoned four companies viz. Sun Direct TV Pte Ltd, Maxis Communication Bhd, South Asia Entertainment Holding Ltd and Astro All Asia Network Plc for the case.

CBI sought arrest warrants last month against the two Malaysians and two companies as the summons had not been served on them. The two companies are Maxis Communication Berhad and Astro All Asia Network Plc.

Briefly, the Aircel-Maxis case stems from allegations that then telecoms Minister Dayanidhi had forced Aircel owner C. Sivasankaran to transfer ownership to Maxis Communications Bhd in 2006.

In return, Maxis invested in Kalanithi’s Sun Direct, the direct-to-home TV arm of his (Kalanithi’s) Sun TV Network Ltd.