Close on the heels of SEBI’s punitive action against NDTV promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy for an alleged insider trading, yet another scam has hit their news channel.
The Legal Rights Observatory, a legal and social activism group, has lodged a complaint with the Income Tax Department over the financial irregularities carried out by NDTV and UNICEF India.
LRO has claimed that the debt-ridden NDTV supposedly siphoned off a major chunk of crores of rupees collected by them and Unicef India in the name of the Indian government’s ChildLine India scheme.
The Observatory also alleged that the money was collected by NDTV and Unicef India by keeping the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare Department in the dark.
It also said that they will bring this to the notice of the Prime Minister’s office.
The story of NDTV’s promoters and its top management is one of the classic examples of breaking laws, evading taxes, and deceiving shareholders of a public listed company, through their unholy nexus with government functionaries and politicians.
They did all this under the garb of journalism and Freedom of Press, and in this process, degraded the intrinsic values of journalism.
On several occasions NDTV became the tool of false propaganda, blackmailing, and illegal money making with the blessings of political and corporate crooks with hidden agendas.
NDTV claims neutrality, but its anchors and reporters have been caught propagating falsehood and fabricated stories against BJP-led governments and right-wing activists.
Moreover, NDTV has been accused of cheating ICICI Bank and money laundering. It has been accused of floating 32 shell firms across the world to launder money, and it was done with the help of one of the political crooks P Chidambaram.
And, the temerity of Prannoy and Radhika Roy to call governments corrupt is astounding.