No orders issued to ban airing of Tehelka episode: EC

Friday, October 26, 2007, 18:10 [IST]

New Delhi, Oct 26 (UNI) The Election Commission(EC) today denied that it had ever issued orders to block airing of the Tehelka episode on Gujarat violence on any TV channel.

The clarification came in the wake of large scale complaints from viewers all over Gujarat that they were not able to watch the programme which was being telecast by some private channels under the heads of ''Tehelka episode of the 2002 Gujarat violence''.

UNI

Topics: POLITICS-EC-GUJARAT-TEHELKA

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