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Indian authorities have ordered a news channel to be taken off air for a day as a penalty for its coverage of a militant attack, a move that was widely criticized on Friday.
The ministry of information and broadcasting said NDTV Hindi revealed strategically sensitive details during the attack on the Pathankot airbase in January, allegedly carried out by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed group.
Seven soldiers and six militants were killed in the attack.
Officials said the channel would go off air from Wednesday as an inter-ministerial panel found the channel had revealed details of the government operation and locations within the base.
NDTV rejected the accusation, saying its coverage was ‘particularly balanced’ and it had been ‘singled out since every channel and newspaper had similar coverage.’ The Editors' Guild of India and opposition politicians also condemned the move, saying it was an impingement of press freedom and demanded the decision be withdrawn immediately.
‘The decision to take the channel off the air for a day is a direct violation of the freedom of the media and therefore the citizens of India and amounts to harsh censorship imposed by the government,’ the guild said.
In its statement, NDTV said it was looking at all possible options to respond to the ‘extraordinary order.’
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