Madras HC dismisses PIL against Sun TV

Televisionpoint.com Team
The Madras High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) from AIADMK Rajya Sabha member TG Narayanan for a direction to the Centre to reject SUN Direct Television Private Limited application for the proposed Direct-to-Home (DTH) licence.

The division bench comprised Justice Prabha Sridevan and Justice C Nagapppan, which said it was satisfied that none of the tests laid down by the Supreme Court for entertaining the PIL had been satisfied in this case.

"No case of public injury has been made out and we do not see how the petitioner has the locus standi to raise this issue. Therefore, on the ground of maintainability alone, the PIL deserved to be dismissed. The provisions of the Competition Act came into play only after an agreement had been entered into, 'We can only say that we are surprised that a person with such credentials should have filed this petition. We do not want to say anything more.", the Bench said.