Catch Cricket live on radio watch it 7 minutes later on DD

New Delhi, Jan 23 (UNI) In an interim order, the Delhi High Court today allowed the Government-owned Prasar Bharti to download the feed of Nimbus Comunications and telecast the India-West Indies ODI series in a delayed transmission of seven minutes on Doordarshan(DD) and broadcast commentary live on the All India Radio(AIR).

After hearing preliminary arguments, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said, ''A delayed telecast of seven minutes which consumes two overs will meet the purpose in public interest.'' The Court directed the Prasar Bharti and the Centre to file their replies to the petition of the Nimbus Comunications by February 8, the next date of hearing.

Additional Solicitor General(ASG) P P Malhotra apppearing for the the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting submitted that the guidelines of the government to share the feed of any sports event in the country was in public interest.

Senior Counsel Harish Salve appearing for Nimbus communications (NC) said the Government could not force any private channel to share its live feed as it was against the fundamental rights enumerated in the Constitution.

He said the private channel was ready to give the feed to the DD, if it was agreed to telecast the matches seven minutes later on a profit share basis of 25:75 basis.

Yesterday, the Nimbus Communications had approached the High Court challenging the Central Government's guidelines to the private channels to share the live feed of the ongoing India-West Indies cricket series with the public broadcaster-Prasar Bharti.

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