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Supreme Court to hear Ten Sports' plea today

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Petitioner contends that guidelines cannot have retrospective effect

New Delhi : The Supreme Court will hear on Monday a special leave petition filed by sports channel TEN Sports challenging the Union Government's guidelines on sharing with Doordarshan live signals of the telecast of the India-Pakistan cricket Tests and One Day Internationals beginning this month in Pakistan.

A Bench, comprising Justice Ashok Bhan and Justice Tarun Chatterjee, will hear the SLP filed by Tej TV Ltd, that owns the sports channel, against a Bombay High Court order of December 22, 2005 refusing to grant any interim relief to the channel.

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry had notified the consolidated `Guidelines for uplinking from India' effective from December 2, 2005. The guidelines made it clear that they would be applicable to existing channels as well.

TEN Sports contended that it had entered into an agreement with the Pakistan Cricket Board obtaining exclusive rights for five years for the telecast of matches played in Pakistan between the hosts, India and Sri Lanka, before the guidelines were framed on November 11, 2005. It said the guidelines could not have retrospective effect to make them applicable to the petitioner. The SLP sought quashing of the impugned order and an interim stay of the guidelines.

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