MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by local cable operators seeking extension of digitisation deadline of 1 November mandated by the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry.

The Court refused to grant relief to the operators on the ground that a significant portion of television homes in the city has already been digitised and the remaining analogue households would also be digitised in due course.

The dismissal was confirmed to Indiantelevision.com by Kuldeep Puri, one of the petitioners.

A clutch of cable operators had approached Bombay High Court seeking extension on the ground that they needed more time to get their networks up and running.

Apart from Puri, the other petitioner was Paresh Thakkar, both associated with Hathway Cable & Datacom, besides operators from the eastern suburbs of Mumbai like Chembur, Ghatkopar and Govandi.

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