{"id":7038,"date":"2016-11-03T17:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:07:47","slug":"govt-may-ask-ndtv-india-go-off-air-day-pathankot-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"Govt may ask NDTV India to go off air for a day over Pathankot coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
When the operation was on in January this year, the channel allegedly revealed information which was likely to be used by the terrorists or their handlers to cause massive harm, the sources said.<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

New Delhi:<\/strong> An Inter-ministerial committee of the I and B ministry has recommended that a leading Hindi news channel be taken off air for a day after it concluded that the broadcaster had revealed \u201cstrategically-sensitive\u201d details while covering the Pathankot terrorist attack. The ministry may now ask the channel NDTV India to be taken off air for a day on November 9, according to sources, in what would be the first order against a broadcaster over its coverage of terrorist attacks. Efforts to reach the channel for its comments could not fructify.<\/em><\/p>\n

The matter pertains to the coverage of the Pathankot terror attack by the channel where the committee felt that \u201csuch crucial information\u201d could have been readily picked by terrorist handlers and had the potential to \u201ccause massive harm not only to the national security, but also to lives of civilians and defence personnel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

When the operation was on in January this year, it allegedly revealed information on the ammunition stockpiled in the airbase, MIGs, fighter-planes, rocket-launchers, mortars, helicopters, fuel-tanks etc. \u201cwhich was likely to be used by the terrorists or their handlers to cause massive harm, the sources said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Official sources said that as the content appeared to be violative of the programming norms, a show cause notice was issued to the channel.<\/em><\/p>\n

In its reply, the channel replied that it was a case of \u201csubjective interpretation\u201d and the most of the information they had put out was already in public domain in print, electronic and social media.<\/em><\/p>\n

The committee, in its order, however observed that the channel \u201cappeared to give out the exact location of the remaining terrorists with regard to the sensitive assets in their vicinity\u201d when they telecast in real time.<\/em><\/p>\n

The panel expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d that this was a matter of national security and that the channel had revealed sensitive details like location of ammunition depot viz-a-viz the space where the terrorists were holed up, location of school and residential areas.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSuch crucial information could have been readily picked by their handlers, which had the potential to cause massive<\/em>
\nharm not only to the national security, but also to lives of civilians and defence personnel,\u201d the committee said disagreeing with the channel\u2019s contention that similar content was carried by newspapers. PTI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the operation was on in January this year, the channel allegedly revealed information which was likely to be used by the terrorists or their handlers to cause massive harm, the sources said. New Delhi: An Inter-ministerial committee of the I and B ministry has recommended that a leading Hindi news channel be taken off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}