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2025 Supreme(Online)(TDSAT) 27

TELECOM DISPUTES SETTLEMENT AND APPELLATE TRIBUNAL
Ram Krishna Gautam, Member
Royal Digital Cable & Communication Pvt. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr.Himanshu Dhawan, Mr. Abhay Dev Sharma
For the Respondents: Ms. Aanchal Tandon, Ms. Niharika Sharma

Table of Content
1. petition challenges broadcaster's demand based on disputed audit alleging excess subscribers and unauthorized signals. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9)
2. procedural history includes interim orders, clubbing, and framing issues on demand validity. (Para 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14)
3. evidence and submissions reviewed; no proper petitioner affidavit. (Para 15 , 16 , 17)
4. preponderance of probabilities governs; petitioner fails onus, audit upheld. (Para 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22)
5. petition dismissed with costs; interim orders vacated. (Para 23 , 24)

JUDGMENT

1. This Petition, under Section 14, read with Section 14A, of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (hereinafter said to be ‘the Act’) has been filed by Petitioner-Royal Digital Cable & Communication Pvt. Ltd., Vs Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd., with a prayer to set aside the demand to the tune of Rs. 70,20,143/- (Rupees Seventy Lakhs Twenty Thousand One Hundred Forty-Three Only) made by Respondent, in its letter dated 01.10.2019 and 10.10.2019, with a further prayer for any other order, as deem fit, in favour of Petitioner, in the interest of justice.

2. In brief, the Petition contends that Pet

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