The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea looking for route to represent a regulatory authority to censor or overview non-film songs, their lyrics, and movies, that are made out there to most of the people by numerous media platforms reminiscent of YouTube and OTT.

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad reserved its order after Advocate Neha Kapoor appeared in individual and submitted that there has to be some regulatory authority as there isn’t a preliminary screening earlier than placing out materials on the OTT platforms.

The plea sought route to challenge acceptable instructions to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to type a regulatory physique/ censor board for regulating/reviewing the contents/lyrics of non-film songs and their music movies, that are launched and streamed, and made out there on numerous platforms/ functions.

The plea submitted that the subject material of the current petition is that such non-film songs promote language demeaning girls, selling consumption of liquor/ medicine, and so on.

It has been argued that such lyrics have hostile results on kids of impressionable age whose pondering may be influenced by being uncovered to such non-film songs/movies.

Kapoor submitted that “the contents of the obscene/ vulgar/ demeaning non-film songs and movies query the dignity of ladies and clearly indicate the objectification of ladies within the society and have the impact of •instigating folks to disrespect/ embarrass girls particularly. Further such songs are clearly selling medicine”.

It has been stated that there is no authority in place like the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), to regulate non-film songs which are directly uploaded on the internet or streamed through different applications which are easily accessible to any person in possession of a device with internet facility, including minors.

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