law: Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995
  14. Giving of opportunity to the cable
  
  operator of seized equipment
  (1)
  
  No order adjudicating confiscation of the equipment referred to in section 12
  
  shall be made unless the cable operator has been given a notice in writing
  
  informing him of the grounds on which it is proposed to confiscate such
  
  equipment and giving him a reasonable opportunity of making a representation in
  
  writing, within such reasonable time as may be specified in the notice against
  
  the confiscation and if he so desires of being heard in the matter:
  PROVIDED
  
  that where no such notice is given within a period of ten days from the
  
  days of the seizure of the equipment, such equipment shall be returned after
  
  the expiry of that period to the cable operator from whose possession it was
  
  seized.
  (2)
  
  Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (1), the provisions of the Code of
  
  Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) shall, so far as may be, apply to every
  
  proceeding referred to in sub-section (1).