NEW DELHI: The government today maintained that a top-level committee decided on the penalty of taking NDTV India off air just for a day instead of 30 days which it had considered because it felt the channel cannot get away with the "huge indiscretion and violation of rules" in its coverage of the Pathankot terror attack.

Rejecting criticism that the decision on NDTVNSE -1.14 % India amounted to an Emergency-era order, officials said 21 such orders had been issued by the UPA governments ..

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