Court binds BCCI until final order: NDTV emerges rights frontrunner

Even as the Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a petition filed by Sony Entertainment challenging the termination of its contract to broadcast IPL matches by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the home ministry has said it had sent a revised tournament schedule to states for their comments. New Delhi, Jaipur and Visakhapatnam have been dropped as venues in the revised schedule submitted to the ministry on Tuesday.

In court, Sony lawyer Iqbal Chhagla stated that legal rights were yet to be established, as the notice given to Sony was not a termination letter. “The notice of termination, given on Saturday, a non-working day, would have come into effect only on March 16 (Monday),” he said. BCCI lawyer V Tulzapurkar countered this, saying that a termination letter had indeed been served. He also added that the contract with Sony was terminated because the “quality of broadcasting” was “bad”.

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