'This will also affect the School Children'- High Court

NEW-DELHI: The Delhi High Court has termed OTT platform TVF's web series 'College Romance' as obscene, filthy, and vulgar. The HC said that there is a need to frame appropriate laws or guidelines to regulate obscene language or content on social media, OTT platforms. While hearing the case, Justice Swaran Kanta Sharma said that she herself had to watch the episode with earphones, because the kind of language used in it, if heard in public, people would be shocked.

Justice Swaran Kanta Sharma said, "I watched the episodes of this series with headphones in my chamber. No one uses such language in public nor does she talk like this in her family. she said the court notes that it is definitely not the language that the youth or citizens of this country use for communication."

Justice wrote in her order that the court has reached the conclusion that the director of the series Simarpreet Singh and actor Apoorva Arora are liable for the action under Section 67 and Section 67A. The Delhi High Court upheld the order of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, in which the court ordered the Delhi Police to register an FIR against the accused.

The Delhi High Court stated in its order - 'This language has been described as the language of college going students. This will also affect the school children and it will become normal in the coming days. The new generation always learns from their older generation, in such a case if school students also start speaking such obscene language then it will be very bad for the society.'