NBSA orders Zee News to apologise

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/09/2017

The News Broadcasting Standards Authority has fined Zee News Rs 1 lakh and ordered it to publish an apology on the channel at 9 pm on September 8 in large font across the full screen for defaming the scientist and poet Gauhar Raza by calling him a member of the Afzal Premi Gang. The channel derided him for some poems he recited in March 2016.                                      

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