Finance secretary R S Gujral too is believed to have met top Vodafone officials in Mumbai last month.
These courts will be set up in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, and Hyderabad
The company will spend Rs 10,141 crore to buy 15.5 per cent stake from minority investors.
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Faced with over Rs 11,200 crore (Rs 112 billion) tax liability, Vodafone India chief Analjit Singh on Thursday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram for the second time this week and expressed the hope that there will be clarity soon on the proposal to settle the dispute through conciliation.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has asked UK-based Vodafone Group, which is facing a tax liability of over Rs 11,200 crore in India, to give its view on the long-pending matter in writing, a senior official said.
Vodafone, according to sources, in its response to the Finance Ministry's offer for conciliation, had expressed keenness to settle the long-pending capital gains tax dispute.
Representatives of the British telecom company on Friday met senior finance ministry officials, in search of an amicable solution.
The Finance Ministry is of the opinion that Vodafone might drag its tax dispute to court.
An international tribunal has ruled that the Indian government had acted "unfairly" and "inequitably" in annulling a contract between Devas and ISRO's commercial arm Antrix.
Vodafone's long-pending tax dispute with the government might be heading for a resolution, with the finance ministry considering changing the Income-Tax Act's retrospective amendment and taxing indirect transfer of assets prospectively from 2012, the year the law was clarified.
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