NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it was planning to bring an amendment in Press Council on India Act to give it more teeth for acting against newspapers and magazines which publish obscene pictures.
The Centre shared its plan for give more powers to the PCI with a Bench comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna which was hearing a bunch of PILs seeking direction to the government to regulate and restrain the print media from publishing obscene pictures.
The Bench had earlier observed that the government appeared reluctant to give more powers to the Council. The petitioners contended that there was no mechanism to regulate publication and telecast of allegedly obscene pictures.
Pleading for a judicial intervention in the matter, the former Director General of BSF Prakash Singh, who is one of the petitioners, contended that children of the country were exposed to the uncensored obscene pictures adversely affecting their mind.
“I have collected the papers from all over the world and no newspaper publishes such obscene pictures,” Singh contended while placing the copies of the newspaper before the Court.
The Court had earlier issued notices to India Today and Outlook magazines for publishing obscene pictures.
