The company, whose 35 towers have been sealed so far, contended the civic body has no authority to seal the mobile towers and the act is violation of Telegraph Act.
In a big relief to Tata Teleservices Ltd whose telephone towers in the national capital were sealed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the Delhi high court today directed the civic authority to deseal them.
Justice Kailash Gambhir, in an interim order, asked MCD to immediately deseal the towers.
The court passed the order on a petition filed by Wireless TT Info-Services Ltd, a wholly-owned company of Tata Teleservices Ltd, seeking its direction to deseal the sealed towers and to restrain the civic body from sealing its other towers.
The company, whose 35 towers have been sealed so far, contended the civic body has no authority to seal the mobile towers and the act is violation of Telegraph Act.
MCD had in the beginning of the year had started the sealing drive after it found that majority of the towers were set up without its approval.
The municipal body said that out of 5,364 towers in the city, only 2,412 have requisite permission and the remaining 2,952 were illegal and it has about 240 towers.
The civic body had issued notices to 1,532 cellular operators, asking them to either apply for regularisation or remove the towers if they cannot be regularised.
MCD had on February 9 unveiled a new policy on mobile towers and given a month's time to operators which have installed illegal structures to apply for regularisation.
According to the revised guidelines for cell towers, the amount payable by service providers to MCD for installing a tower has been increased from the present Rs1 lakh to Rs5 lakh.
MCD said all municipal buildings, including community centres, will get the priority for site selection for new mobile towers and erection of cell towers on residential buildings will only be allowed when there is no alternative.
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