New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Friday told the Supreme Court that as of now the state assembly has not initiated any 'breach of privilege or contempt proceedings' against author Shobhaa De for criticising the state government's decision to screen Marathi films at multiplexes during prime time.

The state said this to the bench of Justice Dipak Misra sand Justice Prafulla C. Pant in its application seeking to be impleaded as one of the respondents in De's petition questioning the April 10 notice seeking her response to the privilege notice moved by Shiv Sena legislator Pratap Sarnaik for her critical tweets.