Sunday, October 23, 2005

Kantipur FM moves Supreme Court

Kathmandu, Oct 23 - Kantipur FM on Sunday moved the Supreme Court (SC) against the government attack and the seizure of transmission equipment on Friday night.

In a writ petition filed at the apex court today, Binod Raj Gyawali, Director of the Kantipur FM Pvt. Ltd, also sought a stay order to stop the government from implementing the recently promulgated media ordinance and to nullify the ordinance that bars the FM stations from broadcasting news.

The writ also sought the court's order to help return the equipment, seized by the government, for usual transmission of news through the station at Bhedetar, Dhankuta.

Ministry of Information and Communication and Rajendra Kumar Poudel, an official at the ministry have been made defendants in the petition.

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