The government on Monday issued instructions to block the website of a Pakistan-based OTT platform, two mobile apps, four social media accounts and a smart TV app, saying a series it was showing violates national security and integrity detrimental to India.
On the anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attacks on November 26, the Vidly TV platform published a web series titled Sevak: The Confessions, which was found to be harmful to India’s national security, sovereignty and integrity, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said.
Three episodes of web series have been released to date, it said.
“The crackdown on Pakistan-based Vidly TV follows the assessment that the provocative and totally untrue web series Sevak was sponsored by the Pakistani information apparatus,” Kanchan Gupta, the ministry’s senior adviser, said on Twitter.
The lawsuit against Pakistan-based Vidly TV follows allegations that the provocative and completely untrue web series “Sevak” was sponsored by the Pakistani information apparatus. The first episode (of 3) was released on 11/26/2022, the anniversary of the Pakistani terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008.
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The web series portrayed an anti-India narrative on sensitive historical events and issues of national importance such as Operation Blue Star and its aftermath, destruction of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, assassination of a Christian missionary named Graham Staines, Malegaon attacks, Samjhauta Express Explosions and interstate river water disputes related to the Sutlej Yamuna Link canal.
