Complainants Salma Sultan and Kaveri Mukherjee were present as Mohini Giri and Padma Seth read out the recommendations of the Commission. Gill was away in Gibraltar and Awasthi did not put in an appearance.

They said the ruling, copies of which had been sent to Gill, Awasthi and the Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj, were binding on the persons unless they could come up with satisfactory reasons for their behaviour. The report said both officials had been unable to convince the NCW as to why only women had been deprived of reading during the prime time slot while men with the same experience continued to do so.