Supreme Court Takes Exception to Statements Against It

Apparently taking exception to Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar questioning the April 8 Supreme Court judgment on setting a timeline for the President and governors to give assent to the Bills enacted by the state legislatures, the Supreme Court said on Monday that it is being accused of "interfering with executive and legislative functions", while hearing a public interest plea (PIL) seeking direction to the Central government to frame regulations to prohibit the streaming of alleged obscene content on Over The Top (OTT) platforms.

- PARMOD KUMAR

Telling the petitioner that the issue raised by him is a policy matter falling within the domain of the Central government, a bench of Justice B R Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih remarked, "... We are accused that we are interfering with the executive and legislative functions."

It is for the Central government to frame regulations in this regard, the bench told the PIL petition.

As advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, appearing for the PIL petitioner Uday Mahurkar and others, urged the bench to hear the matter, the bench asked him to serve a copy of the petition on the counsel of the central government and posted the matter for hearing in May, 2025.

Assailing the OTT platforms Netflix, Amazon, Alt Balaji and others for streaming of alleged obscene material, the PIL petitioner has sought direction to put in place regulation for curbing them.