A court on Wednesday rejected the bail applications of five top executives of telecom companies accused in the country�s biggest scam involving award of telecom licences and spectrum in 2008.

The five are Sanjay Chandra, the managing director of Unitech and chairman of Unitech Wireless; Gautam Doshi, group MD, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG); Surendra Pipara, senior vice-president of ADAG; Hari Nair, senior vice-president of ADAG; and Vinod Goenka, the MD of DB Realty and Swan Telecom (now Etisalat DB). They have been sent to jail.