Observing that private individuals can refuse to receive registered post but a Postmaster cannot, the Madras High Court Bench here has criticised the Postmaster at Bodinayakanur in Theni district for having refused to receive an application addressed to him by a cable television operator seeking renewal of his registration under the Cable Television Network (Regulation) Act, 1995. A Division Bench of Justices V. Ramasubramanian and N. Kirubakaran said: “The application for renewal of registration sent on October 8 should not have been returned by the Postmaster with an endorsement ‘Refused.’ The conduct of the Postmaster in refusing to receive a registered post is wholly unacceptable.” The observation was made while disposing of a batch of cases filed by the cable TV operator, Saisiva alias Sivasubramanian, who had been granted with a registration certificate for five years beginning from February 3, 2010 though the statutory rules framed under the 1995 Act do not provide for issui...