Britain’s media regulator Ofcom has fined a British Sikh TV channel for broadcasting a programme that reportedly incited violence. Ofcom imposed a fine of 30,000 pounds on Regis 1, owners of Sangat TV that broadcast a programme January 13 that had panelists inciting the Sikh community to carry out attacks on members of the Indian armed forces.
The programme reportedly supported the dastardly attack on lieutenant General (retd) KS Brar, who oversaw the Indian Army’s controversial Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in June 1984 while he was walking on a london street with his wife on September 30, 2012. It reportedly broadcast statements by panelists which “were an indirect call to members of the Sikh community to take violent action against Brar (and) other members of the Indian armed forces”, The Telegraph reported. Brar was set upon by four men who tried to slit his throat and he was left with a 12-inch cut on his neck and another cut on his jaw.