Any chance this is a hoax based on a photoshopped image? "... the outlet’s franchisee ... started claiming there never was any restriction on anybody entering the outlet." Maybe they were telling the truth?
And why exactly would one of India's leading newspaper's online blog post this? And who exactly would have anything against a single HD outlet in Delhi?
I wouldn't know (to sell ads? a disgruntled former employee?). But it seems to me that an awful lot is being based on just one image here. And images are easy to fake.