The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) ministry has batted in defence of the new IT rules. It has submitted a plea in the Supreme Court which seeks the regulation of OTT players like Amazon Prime and Netflix with a mechanism to check content.

The ministry has told the apex court that it is acting upon the complaints of certain chief ministers and members of parliament, reports Ashmit Kumar.

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(Edited by : Bivekananda Biswas)