Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant has recently issued a directive to television channels citing an order from the Karnataka High Court which prohibits the transmission of content that does not comply with the current rules.
This comes against the backdrop of an alleged sex scandal involving former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, which was widely publicized on television channels. Since then, six ministers have received temporary injunctions against the transmission of any derogatory material against them.
The order, dated March 9, was addressed to cable television networks, broadcasters and operators. It referred to Section 19 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act to prohibit all transmissions, “not strictly in accordance with the ‘Program Code’ defined under Section 5 of the above Act…”
It warned that any violation of direction would be liable to prosecution.
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