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ABP News and Tiranga TV have received show-cause notices from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, for airing the February 22 press conference of the spokesperson of the Pakistani armed forces on the Pulwama terror attack.
The notices to ABP News and Tiranga TV, dated February 23, says the channels appear to have “violated” two provisions of the Programme Code.
The show-cause notice to Tiranga TV, which is owned by Veecon Media and Broadcasting Private Limited, mentions that “it has come to the notice” of the Ministry that the channel “telecast media briefing of Pakistan army spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor on Pulwama terror attack” on February 22.
With the telecast of the “said media briefing, Tiranga TV channel appears to have violated” two provisions of the Programme Code of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995.
Rule 6 (1) (e) states that “no programme should be carried in the cable service which is likely to encourage or incite violence or contains anything against maintenance of law and order or which promote anti-national attitudes”; and Rule 6 (1) (h) states “no programme should be carried in the cable service which contains anything affecting the integrity of the Nation”.
The notice states that Tiranga TV news channel “has shown the said media briefing for a duration of 20 minutes and 45 seconds and during which there was no intervention from the channel on the correctness or otherwise of the claims being made in the said media briefing in order to ensure that there is no violation of the aforementioned Rules”.
It states that these “facts” point “prima facie” that the channel was in violation of the programme codes, and that it disregarded an advisory issued by the Ministry on the date of the attack.
IndianExpress
