India has blocked a website, two mobile applications, four social media accounts and one smart TV app of Pakistan-based OTT platform Vidly TV. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued the directions under the emergency powers of the IT Rules 2021.
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The OTT platform had recently released a web-series titled “Sevak: The Confessions”, which was found to be detrimental to national security, defence, sovereignty, integrity, public order and India’s friendly relations with foreign states, the ministry said in a statement.
The series presented a distorted version of sensitive historical events pertaining to India, the ministry further said. “The web-series portrayed an anti-India narrative on sensitive historical events and subjects of national importance, like the Operation Blue Star and its aftermath, the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the killing of a Christian missionary – Graham Staines, the Malegaon blasts, the Samjhauta Express blasts, the inter-state river water dispute related to Sutlej Yamuna Link canal and others,” it added.
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It is suspected that the web-series was sponsored by the Pakistani information operations apparatus.
The first episode of the series was released on 26.11.2022, the anniversary of the terror attacks on Mumbai in 2008. Three episodes of the web-series have been released so far.
