The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected a petition seeking to quash the Centre’s notification banning telecast of advertisements of condom between 6.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m.
A Bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice C. Hari Shankar said that the court was not going to interfere with a “conscious policy decision” of the government.
“It is a conscious policy decision of the government. We see no reason to interfere with it,” the Bench said, dismissing the petition challenging the Centre’s December 11, 2017 notification by which condom advertisements were banned between 6.00 am and 10.00 pm.
The petitioner, Sarita Barpanda, in her plea, had said that condom advertisements were banned between those timings on the ground that they were “indecent/ inappropriate for viewing by children”.
The plea had contended that the decision was taken without indicating how such advertisements were indecent or repulsive. It had further said that creating awareness of condom usage amongst adolescents and children bears no proven correlation to creating “interest in unhealthy practices”.
