Arushi case coverage: ministry to slap notice on channel

After representations from child rights bodies, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is likely to issue an advisory to all news channels...

After representations from child rights bodies, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry is likely to issue an advisory to all news channels and even serve a showcause notice to a channel for ‘misrepresentation’ of 14-year-old Arushi Talwar who was found murdered in her Noida home under mysterious circumstances last month.

Officials from the I&B Ministry said a showcause notice is going to be issued to a news channel for airing an MMS as part of programmes related to the murder of the girl girl.

“The channel will be asked to submit the footage. After examination we will decide if it calls for further action against the channel,” said a senior official.

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Other news channels are also likely to get an advisory from the ministry to be more cautious in the way they project Arushi in their news programmes. Child rights organisations and the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare have already expressed concern about the way the teenager has been depicted and spoken about after she was murdered. The notice and advisory are likely to be sent out on Monday.

Meanwhile, the I&B ministry has yet again raised its brows over another Lux Cozy underwear advertisement and is going to issue an advisory to all channels on the issue. Last month, the ministry had issued an advisory asking channels to stop airing two other ‘objectionable’ advertisements of Lux Cozy and Frenchie X undergarments.

In 2007, the Ministry had taken cognizance of complaints against advertisements of Gen-X and Lux Cozy undergarments which were withdrawn later.

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