MUMBAI: The Delhi High Court today refused to entertain an injunction sought by the Times Group in a case filed by it against Republic TV on issues related to IPR on audio tapes aired by the latter. The court has set dates for further hearing in the case. This is according to information shared with indiantelevision.com by sources close to Republic TV. 

Reacting to the development, a Republic TV spokesperson told Indiantelevision.com that while the court has set a date for hearing on the same matter six weeks from now, it has also urged the Times of India group to refrain from reporting on the matter.

We reached out to Times TV Network CEO MK Anand for his organisation's point of view but there was no response till the time of writing this report.

The court had yesterday allegedly refused to put a stay on BARC's  ratings of Republic TV from being published as requested by the India Today group.

Earlier, the court had asked the Times group as to why the Sunanda Pushkar and Lalu Prasad audio tapes were not used despite them being in the possession of Times Now.

Keep tuned in for more on this saga

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