Delhi High Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Ban On Display Of ‘Gross Images’ In Anti-Tobacco Ads In Cinemas, OTT Platforms
Case: Divyam Aggarwal V. Union Of India & Anr
Coram: Justice Subramonium Prasad
Case No.: W.P.(C) 12402/2023
Court Observation: The purpose of the display of distasteful, gross, graphic anti-tobacco imagery in the health spots played during the screening of movies and TV programs is only to make people aware of the ailments and ill effects of consuming tobacco and tobacco products and to show them what tobacco can do to their health.
However, this Court warns the Petitioner not to file such kind of frivolous petitions in the future.
With a view to deter people from smoking tobacco and tobacco products, the Government of India has brought in advertisements to educate people about the ill effects of tobacco and tobacco products. The graphic description given in these Government-issued advertisements which, according to the Petitioner, are gross and graphic imagery, are in fact meant to be eye-openers for the people not to use tobacco and tobacco products and is, therefore, in the public interest.
The aim of the present Writ Petition is actually to restrain the Government from achieving the noble objective of a tobacco-free State and to ensure that people do not become tobacco addicts.
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