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Company takes a legal action; court orders raid at operator’s
premises
June 14, 2006: International Cable TV Network, one of the prominent
cable operators in city of Udipi in Karnataka has been caught red-handed
for pirating signals of channels from Zee Turner bouquet. The operator
had been pilfering some channels of Zee Turner bouquet for last
three months thereby causing huge financial losses to the company.
On obtaining the information and evidences of illegal usage of
its’ channel signals, Zee Turner filed a case of piracy and
unfair trade practices in Delhi High Court against the operator
on June 1, 2006. Honorable Delhi High Court ordered a raid at operator’s
premises and appointed a court commissioner for conducting the raid.
Accordingly, Mr. K.K. Sharma, the court commissioner, with the
help of local police and Zee Turner representatives conducted a
civil raid at International Cable TV Network’s control room
in Malpe Beach. While conducting the raid, Court Commissioner found
enough evidences of piracy and pilferage of Zee Turner channels.
Besides other evidences, the court commissioner also found pirated
IRD Boxes that were being used to illegally distribute the signals
by the operator.
Those pirated IRD boxes as being used for illegal transmission
of Zee Turner channels were seized and sealed by the court commissioner.
International Cable TV Network was an authorized cable operator
of Zee Turner until December 21, 2005. However, arrangement between
the two was terminated on December 22, 2005 due to violation of
the terms of the agreement with Zee Turner and the company switched
off the signals of International cable TV Network. However, International
Cable TV Network thereafter started using pirated boxes to illegitimately
distribute and display the channels from Zee Turner bouquet to its
customers.
Speaking on the issue, Mr. Arun Poddar, CEO Zee Turner said, “We
at Zee Turner will not allow any sort of unfair trade practices
and piracy of our signals and an aggressive action will be taken
against any operator indulging in such practices.”
About Zee-Turner
With 14 regional offices a countrywide network of over 400 dealers,
Zee-Turner has the maximum depth and width of distribution in the
country. Headquartered in New Delhi, Zee-Turner was incorporated
in February 2002, when the two media giants – Zee Telefilms
& Turner International India Pvt. Ltd. - joined hands to form
a distribution joint venture. Zee-Turner manages distribution and
trade marketing for Zee, Turner as well as third party channels
such as CNBC and Reality TV, in India and Nepal.
Zee-Turner's comprehensive bouquet already comprises of 26 channels
catering to every genre and age, and offering quality national and
international content at a very competitive pricing. Some of these
include the flagship channels Zee TV, Zee Cinema, Zee News, Zee
Café, Zee Trendz, HBO,CNBC, CNN International, POGO, Cartoon
Network, and the regional Zee channels, among others.
For further information, please contact:
Pawandeep Kaur
Corporate Communication
Zee-Turner Ltd.; Ph: 011-55563213; 9899796960
Fax: 011-26779350
Email: kaurp@zeeturner.com
Best Regards,
Pawandeep Kaur
Asst. Manager- Corporate Communications
Zee Turner Ltd.
5th Floor, Radisson Plaza, NH 8
New Delhi 110037
Tel: +91-11-55563213 (Direct)/ 55563333 (Ext:213)
Fax: +91-11-26779350
Mobile: +91-9899796960
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