The action blacking out Al Jazeera news channel for five days from television sets in India is disproportionate to the infraction of showing wrong maps of India in 2013 and 2014. The channel had not only apologised for the error, which it attributes to the fact that the images were generated by international software normally used by broadcasters, but also made amends by September 2014 to show only the maps approved by official India which have to display Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Aksai Chin as Indian territory.
An admonition and insistence on an apology being broadcast would have been far more commensurate with the mistakes rather than the blacking-out process, which in the modern age does not make great sense as Al Jazeera English is available freely online anyway. Broadcasters must respect the sovereignty of the footprints of their broadcasts, particularly sensitivity in matters regarding disputed international boundaries, and especially the ones along Kashmir and the Himalayas.
The point is would India have reacted so strongly if the offending broadcasters had been from the UK and US, whose broadcasters have gotten away for years with projecting maps as they please. Had such stringent action been taken against, say, the BBC and VOA at times when they ignored Indian objections about disputed territories, then the current action against Al Jazeera would have been justified.
