NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court yesterday admitted for hearing a petition challenging a week-long ban against Care World India TV, after the information and broadcasting ministry declined to replace its earlier order with a new detailed order.
A division bench of the court comprising Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Anuja Prabhudesai also confirmed the stay order on the ban, and this will remain in force till the hearing is concluded.
Earlier this week, the court had said the ministry order is not a ‘speaking order’ as it does not give details of the violations by the channel. The court had said that the ministry should withdraw the show-cause notice to the channel, and issue a fresh order detailing violations.
Seven Star Satellite Pvt Ltd counsel Mayur Khandeparkar told the court in the hearing on 8 November that a show-cause had been issued to the channel which had also been given a hearing by the Inter-Ministerial Committee, but the final order indicated that none of the arguments given by the channel had been taken into consideration and “therefore it is not a reasoned order”.
The channel Care World had earlier been purportedly banned from the midnight of 9 November to midnight of 16 November 2016.
Khandeparkar also said that the programme ‘Kya Karun main ab’ against which the ministerial order had come had already been taken off air and subsequent episodes would only come subject to the final order of the court.
The judge also said in his order that the channel would not be permitted broadcast of this programme till its interim order was vacated.
Also read
http://www.indiantelevision.com/regulators/high-court/stay-on-care-world-tv-ban-extended-till-28-november-161123
and
http://www.indiantelevision.com/regulators/high-court/hc-seeks-detailed-govt-order-on-care-world-indias-week-long-ban-161128
