According to Chandra, news channel licences should be scrutinized in the manner the Reserve Bank of India scrutinizes applications before issuing any licence in financial service.
Both Dayanidhi Maran and Kalanithi Maran are shareholders and therefore the Clause does not apply to them.
He has said that neither him nor his company are tax dodgers.
Meanwhile, on 25 July the Supreme Court will hear the petition of Sun TV whose assets are threatened to be attached in the 2G-related scam.
The key reason for the PMO's unwillingness to get involved in the Sun TV issue is the CBI probe that the Maran brothers were facing over alleged allotment of 300 high-speed BSNL telephone lines to their installations when Dayanidhi Maran was Telecom Minister.
