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Audience Need Not Stand When National Anthem Is Played In Films, Says Supreme Court

Team SoOLEGAL 14 Feb 2017 3:13pm

Image courtesy: Times Now Audience Need Not Stand When National Anthem Is Played In Films, Says Supreme Court

Clearing the air, the Supreme Court clarified that the audience need not stand when the National Anthem is played as a part of the storyline of a film, newsreel or documentary.

A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R Banumathi made this clear after one of the petitioners said that the apex court should clarify if people are expected to stand when the National Anthem is played in a film, newsreel or documentary.

"It is clarified that when the National Anthem is played as a part of the storyline of a film, newsreel or a documentary, the audience need not stand," the bench said.

The bench, which said that the issue raised by petitioners needs to be debated, has fixed the matter for further hearing on April 18.

The apex court had on November 30 last year ordered cinema halls across the nation to mandatorily play the National Anthem before screening of a movie and the audience must stand and show respect.

This order had come on the PIL filed by one Shyam Narayan Chouksey seeking directions that National Anthem should be played in cinema halls across the country before a film begins and proper norms and protocol be fixed regarding its playing and singing at official functions and programmes where those holding constitutional office are present.

The apex court, while passing a slew of directions, had also observed that the "time has come when citizens must realise that they live in a nation and are duty-bound to show respect to National Anthem which is a symbol of constitutional patriotism and inherent national quality."

It had said that "love and respect for the motherland is reflected when one shows respect to the National Anthem as well as to the National Flag.”

The court had barred printing of the Anthem or part of it on any object and displaying it in such a manner at places which may be "disgraceful to its status and tantamount to disrespect". It had also barred playing or displaying an "abridged version" of the Anthem.

Various other petitioners have also approached the apex court, which has tagged them with and the bench has tagged with the main petition.

 

Source: Times Now



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