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The Kerala High Court today upheld the revocation of uplink and downlink permission to Media One News and Current Affairs Channel by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The restriction was placed on the Channel after the Ministry of Home Affairs denied security clearance to the channel.
Justice N Nagaresh dismissed the petition filed by the company running the channel, after going through the files furnished by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which recommended against the renewal of the license. Dismissing the writ petition against the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting order, the Court noted that the denial of clearance by the Ministry of Home Affairs was based on intelligence inputs that justify denial of security clearance to the channel.
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had on 31st January this year issued the order revoking the uplink and downlink permission granted to M/s Madhyamam Broadcasting Limited which operates Media One channel. The order had also removed the name of the channel from the list of permitted channels.
The channel was earlier granted permission to uplink and downlink the channel on 30th September 2011 for a period till 29th September 2021.