Delhi hc: decide on complaint on reality show
The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the Centre and the Broadcasting Consumers Complaint Committee (BCCC) to decide on allegations of “vulgarity” and “obscenity” against reality show Emotional Atyachar telecast on UTV Bindass channel.
“We direct the Union of India and BCCC to pass final directions with respect to the said two alleged violations; Union of India would take the decision with respect to the first of the two violations and BCCC shall pass an order with respect to its opinion which order would be taken to its logical conclusion by the Union of India,” a bench of justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Pratibha Rani said.
The court’s direction came in a judgement delivered on a PIL filed against Emotional Atyachar which has been telecast on UTV Bindass TV channel of UTV Software Communication Ltd.
The PIL had said a regulatory mechanism be devised to enforce the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 and action taken against the channel for running the “indecent and vulgar” show. The court, however, did not “comment upon the merits of the arguments” advanced by the lawyers for both the parties.
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Final hearing in top court from July 23
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, April 9
The Supreme Court will hear the final arguments on the Mullaperiyar dam case between the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu from July 23. A five-judge Constitution bench of Justices R.M. Lodha, H.L. Dattu, C.K. Prasad, Madan B. Lokur and M.Y. Eqbal Tuesday said the final day-to-day hearing on the case would be held in the SC from July 23.
The bench is hearing a suit filed by the Tamil Nadu government questioning a law enacted by Kerala in 2006 to restrict the water level in the Mullaperiyar dam at 136 feet though the Supreme Court had permitted Tamil Nadu to raise the water level up to 142 feet.
There has been tension between the two states over the safety of the 119-year-old Mullaperiyar dam. While Kerala argued that the structure was weak and it had to be replaced with a new one, Tamil Nadu contended it saying the dam was safe and its water level had to be raised from 132 feet to 136 feet.
The committee, set up in February 2010 to look into all aspects of the dam, had submitted its report to the top court in a sealed cover on April 25, last year.
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