IPL 2011/4: HC extends stay for IPL telecast rights

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Published on: Jan 17, 2011

IPL 2011/4: The Bombay High Court on Monday extended the stay to inviting of tenders for telecast rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) by BCCI till Tuesday.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday extended the stay to inviting of tenders for telecast rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) by BCCI till Tuesday.

Division bench of Justices P B Majumdar and A A Sayed extended the stay after World Sports Group (WSG) approached it challenging a single bench order dismissing its plea against BCCI's decision to terminate its contract.

In June last year, the cricket board terminated WSG's contract for overseas telecast rights alleging that WSG had fraudulently entered into a contract with Multi Screen Media (MSM) Satellite.

"WSG was given telecast rights of all IPL matches by BCCI in January 2008. BCCI's contract with WSG and WSG's contract with MSM are independent of each other,"WSG's counsel Aspi Chinoy argued on Monday.

The senior counsel further argued that what rankled with BCCI was the fact that Rs 425 crore was paid by MSM to WSG in accordance with the contract."BCCI wanted MSM to pay that money to them directly,"Chinoy said.

Opposing the appeal, senior counsel Rafiq Dada, appearing for BCCI, said,"The contract was terminated because of fraud and even the single bench order given by Justice S J Vazifdar observes that prima facie there has been a fraud.

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