Pak-based OTT platform Vidly TV,apps, social media accounts blocked

Information and Broadcasting Ministry has blocked Pakistan-based OTT Platform Vidly TV and four social media accounts for displaying anti-India content. It has also blocked Pakistan Based websites and two mobile applications. The Ministry said, the OTT Platform had recently released a web series titled Sevak: The Confessions, which was found to be detrimental to the national security, sovereignty, and integrity of India. Three episodes of the web series were released to date. It said it was suspected that the web series was sponsored by the Pakistani information operations apparatus. The web series portrayed an anti-India narrative on sensitive historical events and subjects of national importance.

The series presented a distorted version of sensitive historical events pertaining to India, the ministry further said. “The web-series portrayed an anti-India narrative on sensitive historical events and subjects of national importance, like the Operation Blue Star and its aftermath, the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the killing of a Christian missionary - Graham Staines, the Malegaon blasts, the Samjhauta Express blasts, the inter-state river water dispute related to Sutlej Yamuna Link canal and others,” it added. The first episode of the series was released on 26.11.2022, the anniversary of the terror attacks on Mumbai in 2008. Three episodes of the web-series have been released so far.