L.B. Nagar police had registered a criminal case against Telugu news channel TV9 following a local court direction after an advocate moved it seeking action against the channel for belittling Telangana MLAs through a programme telecast by it.
The Second Metropolitan Magistrate court of Cyberabad gave the direction after a lawyer Janardhan Goud filed a petition accusing the TV9 news channel, headed by Ravi Prakash, of showing the newly-created Telangana State legislators in bad light and making derogatory comments on them through a news programme called ‘Bullet News’ that was aired by it on June 12.
L.B. Nagar Inspector E. Srinivas Reddy said Sections 4A and 6 of the Cable Television Networks Act (Regulation), 1995, along with Sections 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 505 (statements conducting to public mischief) of Indian Penal Code were invoked against the TV channel.
