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April 03, 2007 16:07 IST
Irked by Sun TV's resistance to its interim order of giving signals to direct to home operator TataSky, broadcast tribunal Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal asked the Kalanidhi Maran-owned channel on Tuesday to comply with its directions within three days.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, headed by Justice Arun Kumar, took a serious note of Sun TV's non-compliance of its interim order of March 19 and said that Sun TV was acting unfairly in this matter.
On March 19, the tribunal had directed Sun TV to give its signals to TataSky on a-la-carte (pick and choose) basis.
However, Sun TV filed a review application before the tribunal contending it had no channels on a-la-carte basis and only has a bouquet of 20 channels.
On this, TDSAT said Sun TV had earlier accepted it gave channels on a-la-carte basis and did not have a bouquet.
"You cannot impose them (TataSky) to take your each and every channel... I am of impression that you are just taking round about to confuse us," Kumar said.
During proceedings, Sun TV asked the tribunal to direct TataSky to take its 20 channels at Rs 85 and submitted that the extra amount would be adjusted if the case went in the favour of the DTH operator.
But the tribunal said: "Its not fair... you want TataSky to pay for all channels... You cannot add condition in an interim order".
"Spirit of the interim order is to give channels on an a-la-carte basis," the TDSAT bench said and listed the matter for next hearing in the first week of May.
TataSky, a joint venture between Tata and Star India, has been arguing that Sun TV was denying signals as it would soon launch its own Direct-To-Home venture Sun Direct.
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