Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered ban on blasphemous film. Declaring the display of film as unlawful, injudicious, unconstitutional and violation of legal code, the PIL bench of the AP High Court comprising acting Chief Justice PC Ghose and Justice Vilas Afzalpurkar passed the ruling on the petition filed by Mr. Mohammed Haji and ordered to stop the screening of the film with immediate effect.
Mohammed Haji a businessman from Moghulpura moved the court against the Broadcasting Corporation of India, the Ministry of Information and broadcasting, government of Andhra Pradesh, Goggle California, America and Google India Private Ltd. in Hyderabad for their failure to stop exhibition of the film.
Hearing the petition filed under article 226 of Indian constitution the court ordered all the above said parties to stop exhibiting the blasphemous film.
The pleader for the petitioner Mohammed Abdul Quavi Abassi advocated told that court that the exhibition of the film in question has hurt the sentiments of Muslims and contended that the display of the video clip on the internet is in gross violation of Section 67 of the Information Technology Act 2000 and the failure of the authorities in curbing and regulating the display of the video clip is in gross violation of the powers conferred upon them in performing their duties as regulating authority.
He further contended that such material ought not to have been allowed to be uploaded on the internet in the first place and the same should have been removed from the web domain of YouTube as it was found to be ridiculing Islam and its religious sentiments.
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