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STAR Takes Cricbuzz Founder & OnMobile To Court Over Cricket Updates

STAR has taken Piyush Agarwal, the founder of online Cricket site Cricbuzz, and mobile VAS major OnMobile Global to court over the reporting of Cricket scores. The cases were heard in the Delhi High Court last week, and the next hearing in the Cricbuzz case is on the 25th of September 2012, and according to the order in the Piyush Agarwal case (read it here), the defendents have been asked to deposit Rs 15 lakh. What's interesting is that, according to the details in order, the Cellular Operators Association of India also got involved, saying that STAR has deliberately not made them a party and in the event of grant of any injunction granted by the court, it should not be applicable to Cellular Operators. The Court has directed the defendants to maintain statements of accounts for each match and file them with the court. Remember that STAR had sent legal notices to several mobile VAS and app companies earlier last month, during the India-New Zealand Cricket series, which we had reported here. The order for the case filed against OnMobile Global has not yet been made public, and the company has declined to comment saying that the matter is subjudice. Cricbuzz, on their part, has issued the following statement to us: "This suit is about a basic cricket score being the property of STAR. We do not agree with that stance of STAR, and we are going to take up that position in the next hearing on the 25th.…

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