Cable networks face the heat
Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. After two cable networks of Agra showed nude footage of former Miss Agra Kamna Chowdhary last Wednesday, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (NCSCST) took cognizance on Monday and sought a report from the Agra administration.
The National Commission for Women (NCW), too, has set up an inquiry into the incident and a member of the commission would be arriving in Agra soon to investigate the case. The aggrieved parents, meanwhile, have planned to move the Supreme Court against the cable networks.
Suraj Bhan, chairman, NCSCST, said though he had not received any formal complaint from Ms Chowdhary, he had taken cognizance of the report published by The Pioneer and sought a report on the action taken by the Agra administration.
He said if a detailed response was not received from the Agra administration soon, those concerned would be served summons for personal appearance before the commission. NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said the commission had taken cognizance of the media reports and initiated an inquiry, headed by its member Yasmeen Abrar, who will talk to the parents of the aggrieved girl and try to establish the facts of this case.
She said the incident was serious and the grievousness of the case had necessitated a probe. Meanwhile, senior advocate in the Supreme Court Pt Parmanand Katara said the parents of the aggrieved girl have contacted him to file a separate litigation against the two cable networks, making the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as one of the respondents in the case.
He said under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, the broadcasting of locally-produced programmes and objectionable content, including news, was a punishable offence and as a counsel to Ms Chowdhary's family he would highlight the repercussions of the broadcast of the nude footage by the cable channels, which had resulted in a virtual "house arrest" of the family with the two brothers and two sisters of Kamna unable to move out of the house.
According to Kamna's father, RS Chowdhary, his eldest son, who was an engineering student, was threatening to jump before a moving train if his relation with Kamna was revealed in his college, while the remaining kids had been living under the threat of kidnapping. They were not sending any of their kids to school now.
Agra. After two cable networks of Agra showed nude footage of former Miss Agra Kamna Chowdhary last Wednesday, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (NCSCST) took cognizance on Monday and sought a report from the Agra administration.
The National Commission for Women (NCW), too, has set up an inquiry into the incident and a member of the commission would be arriving in Agra soon to investigate the case. The aggrieved parents, meanwhile, have planned to move the Supreme Court against the cable networks.
Suraj Bhan, chairman, NCSCST, said though he had not received any formal complaint from Ms Chowdhary, he had taken cognizance of the report published by The Pioneer and sought a report on the action taken by the Agra administration.
He said if a detailed response was not received from the Agra administration soon, those concerned would be served summons for personal appearance before the commission. NCW chairperson Girija Vyas said the commission had taken cognizance of the media reports and initiated an inquiry, headed by its member Yasmeen Abrar, who will talk to the parents of the aggrieved girl and try to establish the facts of this case.
She said the incident was serious and the grievousness of the case had necessitated a probe. Meanwhile, senior advocate in the Supreme Court Pt Parmanand Katara said the parents of the aggrieved girl have contacted him to file a separate litigation against the two cable networks, making the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as one of the respondents in the case.
He said under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995, the broadcasting of locally-produced programmes and objectionable content, including news, was a punishable offence and as a counsel to Ms Chowdhary's family he would highlight the repercussions of the broadcast of the nude footage by the cable channels, which had resulted in a virtual "house arrest" of the family with the two brothers and two sisters of Kamna unable to move out of the house.
According to Kamna's father, RS Chowdhary, his eldest son, who was an engineering student, was threatening to jump before a moving train if his relation with Kamna was revealed in his college, while the remaining kids had been living under the threat of kidnapping. They were not sending any of their kids to school now.
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