Al-Jazeera violates norms, to be taken off air for 5 days

April 16, 2015 21:24

An inter-ministerial committee of the Information and Broadcasting ministry has found that Al-Jazeera channel violated the programme code by showing wrong maps of India on repeated occasions and recommended that it be taken off air for five days.

According to sources, it had come to the notice of the I&B ministry that on repeated occasions the channel had showed a wrong map of India in some of its broadcasts in 2013 and 2014, after which the matter was referred to the Surveyor General of India.

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