UK's communication regulator, Ofcom has cleared BSkyB in the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished the image of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Ofcom said that there is no evidence that BSkyB was linked to the phone hacking scandal, which led to the close of News of the World news tabloid. The investigations over the incident found no evidence linking BSkyB to the scandal. Murdoch's News Corp has faced accusations of hacking into cellphone voice mails of murder victims, celebrities and 9/11 victims.

"To date, there is no evidence that Sky was directly or indirectly involved in any of the wrongdoing either admitted or alleged to have taken place at News of the World or The Sun," the regulator said.

The regulator also looked in to News Corp was an appropriate owner and if James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, is a good director of the group. It was found that even as the younger Murdoch had fallen short of what is expected in his actions in relation to events realted to the scandal but there is no evidence that he was involved in any wrong doing.

News Corporation has a 39 per cent stake in UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB. In the publishing industry, the group runs the Sun and the Times newspapers in the UK, the Australian newspaper, and the book publisher HarperCollins. Its television businesses include 20th Century Fox, Fox broadcast network and Fox News Channel, besides BSkyB.