NEW DELHI: In a stringent action, the Inter-Ministerial Committee prohibited the transmission or re-transmission of the Mahuaa TV channel for one day on any platform throughout India from midnight 28 April to midnight 29 April for telecast of ?Adults only? certified films during afternoon hours.

The order was issued sub section (2) & (3) of Section 20 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 and under paras 8.1 & 8.2 of the guidelines for uplinking from India.

The channel had screened the films "Aulaad" on 19 July last year at 13:30 hrs and following it up with ?Ek Aur Kurukshetra? on 30 August at 13.29 hrs, displaying ?A? certificates handed by the Central Board of Film Certification.

In reply to a show cause notice, the channel apologised for the error and said this was the first time such a thing had happened since the channel was set up in July 2008. The channel was also permitted to make a presentation before the Committee.

It was pointed out that the IMC has the powers to suspend the permission of uplinking granted to a company for a period of thirty days in the event of first violation, for ninety days in the event of second violation, and revocation of permission of the company and prohibition of broadcast up to the remaining period of permission in the event of third violation.

NEW DELHI: Two directors of Bhojpuri television broadcasting company Mahuaa Media were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation here today for allegedly using forged documents to procure loans of nearly Rs 1 billion from three nationalised banks.

Directors PK Tewari and Anand Tewari were arrested following complaints by the banks for allegedly producing fake invoices and Chartered Accountant certificates to secure Rs 340 million loan from each one of three banks, sources said.

The two will be produced before the district court at Patiala House here in connection with the case.

The case was registered by the agency in January 2012 on complaints from Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, and Union Bank of India which were allegedly cheated by the directors, they said.

Sources said the loan was procured for the expansion of the company. Mahuaa Media runs a clutch of channels including two Bhojpuri channels, Mahuaa and Mahuaa News, Bengali news channel Mahuaa Khobor (it closed Bengali GEC Mahuaa Bangla) and Mahuaa Newsline, a channel targeted at the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand region.

A consortium of seven to eight banks, including Indian Overseas Bank, Union Bank of India and Punjab National Bank, have lent Rs 17-18 billion to Century and its associate companies. Of this, Rs 6-7 billion has turned sticky.