Censor Board Taking Suitable Action Against Swami Nithyananda

A public interest litigation was filed in the High Court on Tuesday seeking directions to private television channels not to air the obscene images of Swami Nithyananda in a compromising position with an actress.KN Subbareddy, former MLA, filed the PIL seeking direction to the regulatory authority of cable news channels and the censor board for taking suitable action against channels for violation of censorship norms.

The petitioner argued that on March 3, a few private television channels aired the clippings of Swami Nithyananda who was allegedly caught on camera in a compromising position with a Tamil actress. The clippings were telecast by two Kannada television channels day in and day out. This episode shocked the people who had great faith in ‘sanyasa dharma’, the petitioner pointed out.

It is unfortunate that the channels telecast the clippings which would affect children and youth, he said. “Many children and youth who watched the clippings are getting entrapped into believing wrong things,” the petitioner contended.