NEW DELHI: After Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka it‘s Madhya Pradesh‘s turn. The Madhya Pradesh High Court today stayed the switch-off of analogue signals till 8 May in the cities of Indore, Bhopal and Jabalpur covered in Phase II of digitisation.

The stay order came on two petitions - including public interest litigation by one LCO including Rashmi Dubey, and one by an MSO run by Nilesh Rawal linked to Digicable - citing shortage of set top boxes, billing issues and some other problems linked to digital addressable system.

The High Court also issued notice to the Union of India and the Information & Broadcasting ministry, according to Rawal‘s counsel Abhijit Awasthi.

As on 3 April, the status of seeding in Madhya Pradesh was 65.34 per cent in Bhopal, 75.79 per cent in Indore, and 37.69 per cent in Jabalpur.

Meanwhile the Karnataka High Court is expected to pronounce judgment tomorrow with regard to two petitions by local cable operators and multi-system operators from Bengaluru and Mysore.

Meanwhile, the stay on DAS in Hyderabad, and Visakhapatnam will continue for another day as the matter did not come up for hearing in the Andhra Pradesh High Court today.

The hearing in DAS extension cases will resume tomorrow in Karnataka and Gujarat. Infact, the Karnataka HC had reserved its verdict for 16 April after hearing all the parties involved in the case.