NEW DELHI: The transmission or re-transmission of the Movies OK channel was stopped for one day on any platform throughout India from midnight 2 May to midnight 3 May for telecast of an ?Adults only? certified film during late afternoon hours.

The action was taken by the Inter-Ministerial Committee under 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 film "Dil Jale? on 18 June last year at 18:12 hrs, displaying ?A? certificates given by the Central Board of Film Certification.

In reply to a show cause notice, the channel claimed that it had actually shown the U/V certified film but shown the ?A? Certificate by human error.

After hearing the channel representative and seeing the tape submitted by it, the Committee was of the view that the argument ?does not hold water and is misleading? as the U/V certificate did not appear anywhere.

It was pointed out that the IMC has the powers to suspend the permission of uplinking granted to a company for a period of 30 days in the event of first violation, for 90 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.