DETECTIVE AGENCIES TO CHECK CENSOR
VIOLATIONS
The Government has
decided to extend the engagement of detective agencies to carry
out checks in cinema halls to all regional centres of the Central
Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in the 10th Plan.
Replying to a question
by Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal in Lok Sabha today, the Minister for
Information and Broadcasting Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said that
with a view to ensuring strict compliance of the provisions of
the Cinematograph Act, 1952, the CBFC on a test basis had hired
a private agency for carrying out regular checks in cinema halls
initially in the four metropolitan cities during the period from
May 1, 2001 to April 30, 2002.
The Minister said
that the Agency carried out checks in 1859 theatres in the four
metropolitan cities and caused 31 cases to be registered. The
number of complaints relating to censorship violations received
by the CBFC in various forms in several states and union territories
during the year 2000, 2001 and 2002 were 57, 144 and 105 respectively.
