HYDERABAD: The AP State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) on Saturday directed the Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad to ban transmission of AATA-5, a reality show, on a local channel for violating children’s rights.
SHRC chairperson Justice B Subhashan Reddy, at a press conference here, said Aata was banned under the Cable TV Network (Regulation) Act in the interests of the people.
“The Commissioner is also directed to see to it that similar programmes or indecent advertisements being telecast on any other TV channels are banned,” he said.
The SHRC ordered the police commissioner to submit a complaince report on June 14. The police were also directed to bring to the SHRC’s notice any reality shows that are offensive in nature and attract action under the provisions of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1886. Justice Subhashan Reddy said a public hearing will be conducted on July 3 to evolve norms so that censorship of television programmes can be enforced like it is done in the case of movies.
He said the SHRC judgment was pronounced after hearing arguments of all the parties involved in AATA.
Justice Subhashan Reddy took a dig at the way anchors of AATA conducted themselves on the show. “I have personally seen AATA on several occasions. I take strong objection to the way girls were tossed in the air and the manner in which they were hugged. Though I have not mentioned in the order, it was inappropriate on the part of the anchors of AATA to compare children with erstwhile Vamps of the Telugu film industry like Jayamalini, Jyothi Lakshmi and others,’’ he observed.
He also expressed his concern at the fact that most of the children, who had been participating in these reality shows, were not given proper access to education, play and rest which are the fundamental rights of children as per the United Nation norms. G Anuradha, Business Head of Zee Telugu which airs Aata, declined to comment on the SHRC order.
Source: expressbuzz.com
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