India’s top court has deferred the hearing of Vodafone’s US$2.5 billion tax case to 15 November, Harish Salve, a lawyer for the telecom firm, told reporters on Monday, reports Reuters. Vodafone, fighting a tax bill in India over its 2007 purchase of Hutchison Whampoa’s mobile business in the country, had appealed to the Supreme Court challenging a lower court order that Indian tax authorities had jurisdiction over tax bills in cross-border deals.