Posted by All Information Here on Tuesday, October 21, 2014
A writ petition was first filed before the Supreme Court of India sometime last week by leading music labels, T Series and Venus Records, challenging interalia sections 17,18, 19, 30 and 33 of the amended Act. A bench comprising Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Desai declined to hear the matter, asking that the writ be filed before the High Court.
We are given to believe that a fresh writ petition was filed today before the Delhi High Court and is expected to come up tomorrow. My guess is that the amendments have been challenged as violative of Article 14 (vague, arbitrary etc) and violative of the right to trade/contract etc (Article 19). We'll keep you posted.