{"id":31798,"date":"2018-10-29T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31798"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:47:20","slug":"padmaavat-order-will-not-be-recalled-declares-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/padmaavat-order-will-not-be-recalled-declares-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Padmaavat order will not be recalled, declares SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/dont-make-a-virtue-of-creating-trouble-sc-to-states-anti-padmaavat-groups\/article22495721.ece\">Padmaavat order will not be recalled, declares SC<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court declined a plea by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh governments to modify its decision to allow film \u2018Padmaavat\u2019 to be screened in theatres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A 100 or 200 people cannot take to the streets and seek a ban\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The State governments approached the apex court to convey\u00a0the apprehensions that the screening of the movie would trigger large-scale violence by caste groups, beyond the control of the law enforcement apparatus.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Onus on the States<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the court stood firm by the right to creative speech and expression, putting the onus squarely on the State governments to take measures to protect the movie, its artistes and the public who come to watch it in the theatres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Court Observed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no way the court would back down<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, these people will make a virtue of creating trouble.<\/p>\n<p>They will first create trouble and then make a virtue of creating trouble<\/p>\n<p><strong>Section 6 invoked by States<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The States had invoked Section 6 of the Cinematograph Act of 1952 to argue that the law provided the State to finally decide whether exhibition of a movie may trigger public unrest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SC stay<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The court had further restrained all States from passing such prohibitory orders against the exhibition of the film.<\/li>\n<li>The apex court had emphasised that it was &#8220;the duty and obligation of the State to maintain law and order&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The Bench had made it clear that &#8220;once the Parliament has conferred the responsibility and power on a statutory Board and the Board has certified the film, non-exhibition of the film by States is contrary to statutory provisions&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Padmaavat order will not be recalled, declares SC Context The Supreme Court declined a plea by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh governments to modify its decision to allow film \u2018Padmaavat\u2019 to be screened in theatres. A 100 or 200 people cannot take to the streets and seek a ban\u2019 The State governments approached the apex court&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/padmaavat-order-will-not-be-recalled-declares-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Padmaavat order will not be recalled, declares SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704664406},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}