March 04, 2025 10:27 pm
When the oral arguments in the dispute over the $1.2 billion arbitration award were allowed by the US Supreme Court, the counsel for Antrix Corporation argued that the case ‘serves as an irritant to the Indian government’.
October 14, 2024 4:27 pm
The foreign investors of Devas Multimedia that have approached the US Supreme Court are CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited; Devas Multimedia America Inc; Devas Employees Mauritius Private Limited; and Telcom Devas Mauritius Limited.
November 05, 2023 9:32 am
The district court, in an October 25 order, rejected the government's plea to consider the Supreme Court order as fresh evidence of wrongdoing by Devas Multimedia in the process of securing the 2005 satellite deal with Antrix Corp.
June 15, 2023 3:12 pm
Three Mauritius-based investors in Devas Multimedia along with Devas Multimedia America Inc, a US arm of Devas, had approached the court expressing fears of moves by Mauritius officials to liquidate the firms at India’s instance.
March 18, 2023 10:07 am
The bench said that the SC is the final court and once it lays down a law, it is “binding on all courts, Tribunals, on the Legislature and the Executive”.
August 20, 2022 7:51 am
In a recent order, the court rejected a plea by Intelsat to stay the efforts by the Devas investors to seize its assets. Subsequently, on July 29, the court asked Intelsat to hand a cheque for $87,457 to Devas Multimedia America Inc, the US arm of Devas.
July 20, 2022 11:11 am
Antrix had sought a stay on the order while it filed an appeal against the order—to recover compensation to the tune of $ 111 million awarded to Devas Multimedia over the cancellation of the 2005 satellite deal.
July 19, 2022 8:20 am
The biggest compensation granted to Devas has been a September 2015 ICC tribunal award of over $1.2 billion, which was confirmed by a US federal court in October 2020. Antrix Corporation has filed an appeal against this order.
January 19, 2022 1:30 am
Addressing the media, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hailed the Supreme Court decision as very comprehensive and hit out at the UPA government for the Antrix-Devas deal.
January 19, 2022 1:31 am
The court stated that it is a case of “fraud of a huge magnitude which cannot be brushed under the carpet, as a private lis (suit)”.






