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  • Gujarat HC dismisses petitions seeking DAS extension

    Gujarat HC dismisses petitions seeking DAS extension

    NEW DELHI: The Gujarat High Court today dismissed two petitions seeking postponement of Digital Addressable System (DAS) in the four cities in the state that were covered under Phase II of digitisation.

    Justice Rajesh Shukla quashed the petitions filed by Cable Operators Association of Gujarat (COAG) through its President Pramod Pandya and another body of local cable operators from Surat.

    This follows a similar order by the Karnataka High Court earlier in the day striking down Karnataka State Cable TV Operators Association‘s (KSCOA) petition.

    The court also vacated the stay ordered on 28 March in the cities of Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, and Vadodara, thereby allowing the Information & Broadcasting ministry to implement analogue signal switch-off in the state.

    Earlier, the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) had impleaded itself as a party in the case in Gujarat, primarily to argue that there should be no delay in DAS.

    In its petition, the COAG had said that there was shortage of set top boxes and no clarity on acquisition of these boxes.

  • DAS stayed in Madhya Pradesh till 8 May

    DAS stayed in Madhya Pradesh till 8 May

    NEW DELHI: After Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka it‘s Madhya Pradesh‘s turn. The Madhya Pradesh High Court today stayed the switch-off of analogue signals till 8 May in the cities of Indore, Bhopal and Jabalpur covered in Phase II of digitisation.

    The stay order came on two petitions – including public interest litigation by one LCO including Rashmi Dubey, and one by an MSO run by Nilesh Rawal linked to Digicable – citing shortage of set top boxes, billing issues and some other problems linked to digital addressable system.

    The High Court also issued notice to the Union of India and the Information & Broadcasting ministry, according to Rawal‘s counsel Abhijit Awasthi.

    As on 3 April, the status of seeding in Madhya Pradesh was 65.34 per cent in Bhopal, 75.79 per cent in Indore, and 37.69 per cent in Jabalpur.

    Meanwhile the Karnataka High Court is expected to pronounce judgment tomorrow with regard to two petitions by local cable operators and multi-system operators from Bengaluru and Mysore.

    Meanwhile, the stay on DAS in Hyderabad, and Visakhapatnam will continue for another day as the matter did not come up for hearing in the Andhra Pradesh High Court today.

    The hearing in DAS extension cases will resume tomorrow in Karnataka and Gujarat. Infact, the Karnataka HC had reserved its verdict for 16 April after hearing all the parties involved in the case.