<span style="color: #222222;">A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today upheld a single bench order that dismissed a petition against the ban imposed on Media One TV channel by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting recently.<br />''<br />''The Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly dismissed the appeals filed by the channel owners, channel employees, and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists against the single bench order.<br />''<br />''The I&B Ministry had refused to renew the broadcast license granted to Media One after the Ministry of Home Affairs rejected security clearance for its renewal.<br />''<br />''The Division Bench observed that upon perusing the confidential files submitted by the Ministry of Home Affairs, it was convinced that there was a threat to national security.<br />''<br />''The Single Bench also had said in its order that it found intelligence reports that justified the denial of security clearance for the channel.</span><br />