New Delhi: Just when Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi thought it couldn't get worse, TV broadcaster Sony is adding to his woes by taking the organisers of IPL to court.
Sony has got an injunction to stop the IPL from discussing telecast rights with other channels.
The injunction order was given to IPL on Saturday night. The Bombay High Court will hear the case on Monday.
The IPL schedule has been in jeopardy and the cumbersome process of re-working the dates in a bid to salvage the high profile Twenty20 cricket event have been on for over a month.
The tournament, coinciding with the General Elections, has run into rough weather after the Home Ministry asked the organisers to redraw the schedule as it was not feasible to hold the matches under the existing fixture for security reasons.
Lalit Modi and CEO Sundar Raman, who reached the Capital from Mumbai, have been in meetings to find a way out of the imbroglio.
The Bangalore police declined to provide security cover for the tournament till May 3 and advised the organisers to hold all matches after May 4.
The Ministry’s directive came on Friday after eight states, where matches are to be held, said they might not be able to provide security in view of the General Elections.
The DLF IPL premier league's associate sponsors are Pepsico India, Hyundai and Nokia, as Sony Entertainment Television aims to rake in Rs 1.7 billion from the deal, media reports said.
The last edition of IPL had generated nearly Rs 300 crore of advertising revenue.
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