{1} wp1051610.odt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 10516 OF 2010 Dilip s/o Natthu Chaudhari Petitioner Versus The Union of India & others Respondents Mr.N.B.Suryawanshi advocate for the petitioner Mr.Alok Sharma, Assistant Solicitor General for Respondent No.1. Mr.P.P.More, A.G.P for Respondent No.2. Mr.S.D.Hiwrekar, advocate for respondent no.3. Mr.Milind Patil, advocate for Respondent No.4. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE AND R.M.BORDE, JJ. DATE :04 th February, 2011 PER COURT: 1 Heard learned Counsel for the parties. 2 By this petition, which is in the nature of public interest, the petitioner is seeking a direction to Respondent No.2 to take action in accordance with law against Respondent Nos.3 and 4 for unauthorisedly and illegally operating local television channels and transmitting the same without any valid license and in defiance of the provisions of Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act, 1995 and the Rules framed thereunder. 3 It appears that similar complaint was made by the petitioner, addressed to Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, on 26.05.2010. The Under Secretary of the {2} wp1051610.odt Department forwarded the said complaint to the District Magistrate, Nandurbar (Maharashtra), vide letter dated 28.06.2010. The petitioner also made similar complaint to the District Magistrate / the Authorised Officer, Cable Television Networks, Nandurbar, on 15.05.2010. Since there was no response from the District Magistrate, the petitioner seems to have filed the instant writ petition. 4 After having considered overall facts and circumstances of the case, we are satisfied that this petition can be conveniently disposed of by the following order: ● (a) The Respondent No.2 shall decide the complaint made by the petitioner, dated 15.05.2010 and the complaint dated 26.05.2010, which is forwarded by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, vide letter dated 28.06.2010 to the Respondent No. 2, as expeditiously as possible and preferably, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of this order. ● (b) The Respondent No.2 shall decide the complaints after giving an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner so also to Respondent Nos.3 and 4. 5 With these observations, writ petition is disposed of. R.M.BORDE D.B.BHOSALE JUDGE JUDGE adb/wp1051610