The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the central government to take action within a week against TV channel Colors for using the national anthem to promote reality show “Bigg Boss 6” in cinema halls across the country.
The court gave the directions after hearing a PIL against the channel for running a commercial of the Salman Khan-hosted show wherein an audio demanded that all present in the hall should “stand up for the national anthem” as Big Bigg Boss wanted it.
A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said: “In the wake of serious allegations levelled by the petitioner that the national anthem is disrespected, we direct the central government to treat this PIL as representation and the grievances be dealt with in accordance with the law.”
The court added that “necessary action would be taken by the ministry concerned against the respondents within a week”.
The PIL filed by Jeetender Gupta, a lawyer, alleged that Colors has “disrespected” the national anthem by using it to promote the realty show in various PVR multiplexes in the city as well as in other parts of the country.
“The Colors channel randomly displayed an advertisement inside the movie theatres and the said advertisement was in the form of a visual displaying the logo of its programme ‘Bigg Boss 6’ followed by an audio demanding all present in the hall to stand up for the national anthem.
“‘Bigg boss chahte hain ki aap rashtriya gaan ke liye khade hon’, (Bigg boss wants you to stand for the national anthem) and then the Indian National Anthem was played,” the petition stated.
It further added: “The respondent (TV channel) is trying to associate itself with the national anthem solely for commercial purpose of promoting its latest TV programme.”
The plea said: “The acts of TV channel and PVR amount to possible violations of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act 1971 and the Emblems and Names (prevention of improper use) Act 1950.”
Now,everybody will thrash salman,but he is not responsible for it,keep in mind
King of king salman
Stunt for cheap publicity..
Being human rulzzzz????…..lol.
@rahul…..ok agreed, by the way if srk would have been there in place of sallu then what would have been your comment????
@king,have i mentiond srk in my comment,1st tell me that.i am not at all interested in him.
DIWALI BEKAAR BINA SON OF SARDAR.
Agar shah rukh isme hota toh salman ki cha tane wale abhi pagal ho jate aur na jane kya kya kehte. Pura media bik chuka hai koi ye news nahi dikhata agar WC victory ki khushi me srk k haatho me flag galti se ulta ho jaye toh woh gaddar (maloom hone k baad usne flag ko sidha kar diya tha) no one is barking here now about salman u all so called ‘loyal’ Indians
Ab woh pagal budhha Bal thackray kaha par hai bus baat baat pe srk ki chatna hi aata hai.
Ab ei mere ch uth ke fans, i m a real gaddar but big boss walone anthem promotion ke liye use kiya which is bad thing but main jo flag ke saath kiya woh aur koi actor kar hi nahi saktha. Im a paki
look at my fans, after reading this article they r saying that i rock. so 2 them insulting our country is a rocking job. god save india 4m such citizens!
Srk paki hai toh tumahare salman me IndiaTV par mumbai terror attacks k waqt aisa kyun kaha tha ki ‘hum hamesha pakistan par aarope kyun lagate hai?’ ,apne pic ko release karne k liye pakistan me jakar bhik kyun mangi thi? Apne pic ko promote karne k liye poor sarabjeet ki family ko kyun use kiya? Ab kaha hai uska sarabjeet ko wapas lane ka twitter mission? Can u answer? Ur just losers.
THIS SALWOMAN SHLD B HANGED
here it is all over agai. crushing poors, beating women, hunting inocent animal and nw disrespeting national woman. y this man is roamin free? just put him behind the bars.
My srk-g#y who is g#ndu hjra shud b handed over 2 taliba n 2 gangrpe him n then cut his useless pen#s & serve it to me for dinner. I want to eat it
Srk g#y rap#d my dad,my male pet dog, my grandfather& also me, why he is allowed to roam freely he shud be hanged
Salman should be hanged till death
mujhe jail bhejoge? maine jailer k pass alvira ko bhej diya, badle me wo mujhe arrest nhi karega.
@king khan….alvira bal thackeray ki rakhail hai isliye salman ko kuch nahi bloega yeh tharki buddha!!
salwoman khan should be hanged till death.
nilesh ki ma ki chùt mei talwar
salman is räpèd by hër love shèrä and alvira is gängråpëd by agåy devgan, sangåy dutt and arbaaz khan. salman also tried but uska khärä hi nahi hota .
NVS u mädärch0d this is my family matter. don’t comment on this. Ja k apni ma bèhän chùda srk aur uske fans se.
ok salman bêhän sorry.
abe mädärch0d NVS. mujhe na bhai bol na bêhän. mai hïjdä hu.
@NVS
CHUP BH0SADI KAY !
Ja k srk ki chaat aur apni ma ch#da
NVS ki maa r#ndi hai. Wo kotha chalata hai aur apni ma bhen ki kamai khata hai
NVS ki ma ki ch#t me dhaga wo dum daba ke bhaga. Kaha gya 6kke aa teri pelta hu.
NVS ki ma ki ch#t nahi voshra hai bhai.
dont angry my son(NVS)