AXN Returns to Indian Airwaves

NEW DELHI, March 2: Sony Pictures Television International’s
AXN brand is back on the air in India, with the government lifting its ban on
the action-adventure network for broadcasting allegedly lewd content.

The ban was imposed in late January, for a two-month period,
because of AXN’s broadcast of The World's Sexiest Advertisements, which P.R. Dasmunsi, the Information &
Broadcasting Minister, referred to at the time as “indecent content” that was
“against good taste or decency and is likely to adversely affect public
morality.”

The ban was initially set to be in place till March 15. The
early lifting of the restriction comes after AXN assured authorities that it
had “put in place a more effective self-regulatory mechanism" to comply
with Indian laws, according to Reuters.