By IndraStra Global Editorial Team





Retired Indian army personnels are complaining on twitter that India’s major news channels have indiscreetly broad-casted sensitive and confidential informations that helped terrorists to infiltrate into Punjab’s Pathankot air force base.









Why media is not stopped from airing classified news on terrorist movement till it is cleared by govt /





Dear Mr.Doval. As nations Security Advisor, can't you stop @ndtv from assisting terrorist with their live telecast of sitrep ?





Urgent need is to deploy Army in all vital areas bordering POK affter bringing in 1 km belt under AFSPA



Given these dynamics and unexpected fall out of events, it becomes imperative to understand whether Indian media's modus operandi at the time of national security crisis lies in favour of the state or not.



In acknowledging the sensitivities attached to India's national security, on March 24, 2015, Government of India issued a diktat on “Live Coverage of Terror Operations” in order to put a "control tag" on the over all reporting of a periodic briefing by authorities with visual coverage at and around the scene of crime, supposedly to be banned.









Image Attribute: National Security Guard (NSG)'s IG (Operations), Major General Dushyant Singh





"LIVE OP" Commander is doing "Media Briefing" from Ground Zero with a Body Armor? , Where is the twitter friendly Indian Press Information Bureau ?





This new clause, which was added to the program code of the Cable Television Network Rules in early 2015, clearly posits that no program should be carried in the cable service that "contains live coverage of anti-terrorist operation by security forces, wherein media coverage shall be restricted to periodic briefing by any officer designated by the appropriate government, till such operation concludes."









Screengrab of neutralized Terrorists, broad-casted by Times Now on Jan 3, 2016 ,

When Live Op was yet to conclude?





How come such information comes into public domain at the time of live operation?





Most importantly specified that, "Anti-terrorist operation" is "undertaken to bring terrorists to justice, which includes all engagements involving justifiable use of force between security forces and terrorists." thereby, any kind of violation of the program code can lead to being yanked off air for a period of time or permanent revocation of the broadcaster's license in accordance with the Cable Television Network (Amendment) Act. In this context, applying random open-source intelligence analysis based upon the media reports, it becomes important to assess how sensitive information revealed in open domain can eventually jeopardize any "live counter-terrorism operation"- by revealing facts which are not meant to be revealed at the first place itself. With the national security at stake, this pertinent issue calls for significant query.





OSINT 1: "Village where SP's vehicle was found, Close shave with terror leaves Akalgarh shaken" / Source: Indian Express





Keyword in this Media Headline - "Akalgarh", Possible Combing Operation Area - Check The Map









OSINT 2: Indian army soldiers stand guard near the Indian Air Force (IAF) base at Pathankot in Punjab, India, January 3, 2016. A gold medal-winning Indian shooter was among 10 people killed in an audacious pre-dawn assault on the air force base, officials said on Sunday as troops worked to clear the compound near India's border with Pakistan after a 15-hour gunbattle. Source: REUTERS/Mukesh













Possible IMINT Analysis







