SECRETARY MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING GOVERNMENT OF INDIA CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF BENGAL Vs. CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF BENGAL:UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) It will be convenient to answer the questions of law that arise in the present case, before we advert to the factual controversy between the parties. The questions of law are:

(3.) On answers to THESe questions depend the answers to the incidental questions such as (i) whether the government or the government agencies like DD in the present case, have a monopoly of creating terrestrial signals and of telecasting them or refusing to telecast them, (ii whether the government or government agencies like DD can claim to be the host broadcaster for all events whether produced or organised by it or by anybody else in the country and can insist upon the organiser or the agency for telecasting engaged by him, to take the signal only from the government or government agency and telecast it only with its permission or jointly with it.