(5 December 2009 7:30 pm)

MUMBAI: Police arrested a local cable operator of Scod 18 from the outskirts of Mumbai for illegally telecasting Neo Cricket on its network.

The police nabbed Raju Patil, owner of 3D Cable Network and sub-operator of Scod18, for stealing the signals of Neo Cricket and transmitting it on his network without the license from Neo Sports Broadcast.

The arrest took place at the 3D Cable Network at Ambarnath in Mumbai, Neo Sports said.

As per Neo Sports Broadcast, Scod18 owes an outstanding amount of Rs 10 million. “Scod18 has not paid us our dues. Hence we have stopped our signals from the last week of November. We came to know that Scod18’s LCO is pirating our signals, so we lodged a complaint,” says Neo Sports Broadcast president affiliate sales and platforms Arun Poddar.

On 21 November, Neo had filed a complaint against the officers of Scod18 Networking Pvt Ltd with the Ambarnath Police Station, under Section 37, 51, with 63 and 69 of Copyright Act 1957.

Scod18 officials declined to comment on the issue.