Samaya News
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Samaya TV is a television news channel, launched on 20 June 2010. Within a year of launch, Samaya News 24X7 became the second-most viewed news channel in Karnataka.
Throughout 2012 to 2017 the channel chief reporter Ranganath Bharadwaj conspired with child molester Vinay Bharadwaj (who was fined $ 1/2 Million USD for repeated counts of child molestation) to attack His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In this desperate attempt, the channel even attacked the U.S. courts with false defamatory news programs which ran in 1000 hours total.
The Kannada news television channel Samaya TV and chief reporter Ranganath Bharadwaj were found guilty of defamation and civil conspiracy by USA Court. In Dec 2017, the USA Court fined them with a $5 Million (equivalent to Rs. 32 Crore ) judgement for broadcasting false news about His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda and his USA mission. As of now all other major legal proceedings against media houses filed by various entities throughout the country are pending disposal. This has thus been the single biggest major victory against a paid news channel in the history of India.