Malayalam TV news channel Media One on Tuesday welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court staying the Centre s ban on their operations.The Central government had cited national security grounds to justify the ban and the channel management .
A bench of Justices D.Y. Chandrachud, Surya Kant and Vikram Nath allowed the news and current affairs channel to continue its operations as they were prior to the telecast ban.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the union government in MediaOne channel s special leave petition challenging the Kerala High Court s decision upholding the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) s recent ban on the channel.
'For 11 years, we have been functioning and we have 350 employees and millions of viewers. We have been shut down because of some secret files from the Home Ministry,' senior advocate Dushyant Dave said.