The Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) is set to hear the direct-to-home (DTH) licence fee case once again after the Supreme Court disposed of the appeals filed by Tata Sky and Union government on 27 August. The matter has been put up for hearing on 12 October. In the previous hearing on 24 February, the tribunal had passed an order stating that it would not proceed with hearing of these petitions as it might lead to conflicting orders. The DTH operators had challenged the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting’s (MIB) notices issued in March 2014 demanding Rs 2,066 crore (Rs 20.66 billion) in licence fee dues. During the hearing in the TDSAT, Tata Sky counsel Salman Khurshid stated that the petition was on a very limited issue of imposition of interest. Though the DTH operator was making all payments to the government, the government had imposed interest on those payments, he had argued.
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