Film can't show prenatal sex-determination without any disclaimer: Delhi High Court on Ranveer Singh-starrer 'Jayeshbhai Jordaar'

The Delhi High Court on Monday said that film cant show scenes related to prenatal sex determination without any disclaimer adding that the scene has been shown without disclosure or messageThe court was hearing a plea against the upcoming movie Jayeshbhai Jordaar over the depiction of a prenatal sexdetermination scene in the trailerThe bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla asked the counsel who appeared for the makers of the movie to take instructions and show the relevant portion in which the relevant disclosure has been shown in the movieLawyers appeared for makes later assured the court that an authorized person will physically hand over the entire films copy to the Court for its perusal by tomorrowMeanwhile the court also noted that this movie may go on to give a good message but for this scene there is no such message There is no disclaimer on this eitherThe plea has sought appropriate direction to the Centre and other respondents to censordelete the ultrasound clinic centre scene of the movie Jayeshbhai Jordaar in which the sex selection technique is allegedly being shown practising and abortion of a girl child is being shown without disclosureThe plea states that this is a violation of sections 3 3A 3B 4 6 and 22 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and PreConception and PreNatal Diagnostic Techniques Act It also requested that since the movie is being released across India on May 13 the court grants the request before the releaseThe plea moved by an NGO through its president Manish Jain stated In the Jayeshbhai Jordaars trailer we saw one of the scenes in which the couple and his family member gone for the sex selection in the ultrasound clinic and the doctor is operating the machine and showing the radiology image of the baby in the womb of the motherOn being asked by the family member Agar Ladka Hua toh Jai Shree Krishna and Ladkee hue toh Jai Mata Di followed by an abortion of the girl child the plea readLast week the plea filed through Advocate Pawan Prakash Pathak mentioned the matter before the acting chief justice court where the court asked the lawyer to file all the documents today adding that it will hear it tomorrowAdvocate Pathak stated that prenatal sex determination is statutorily prohibited and prayed that the scene in question is deleted on the ground of promoting prohibited activitiesJayeshbhai Jordaar is an upcoming comedydrama film directed by Divyang Thakkar and produced by Aditya Chopra and Maneesh Sharma under Yash Raj Films The film stars Ranveer Singh in the titular role as the son of a traditional Gujarati sarpanch who believes in equal rights between males and females in society The film is scheduled to be released theatrically on May 13 2022This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever