Bombay Begums in trouble! NCPCR asks Mumbai Police to investigate the cause
17 Mar 2021 12:01:40
Mumbai, March 17: Up in the Bombay Begum streaming strongly objected by the NCPCR on the grounds of wrong portray of children in an obscene or vulgar manner, the NCPCR chief has directed the Netflix team to delete 5 scenes immediately and stop the web series streaming till then. The commission has aslo filed an official complaint in this regard to the Mumbai Police.
This is after the Netflix content team led by the Netflix Policy head met NCPCR in person on March 16. "The 5 scenes in the web series are violation of either the JJ Act, 2015, POSCO Act, 2012, IPC, 1860 or the CPCR Act. In one of the scene, a minor girl is shown smoking cigarette which is violation of relevant section of the above mentioned acts", the team was informed.
The commission assumably had taken action based on a complaint which alleged that the series normalises minors indulging in casual sex and drug abuse. "Netflix should take extra precaution while streaming any content in respect of the children or for the children and shall also refrain from getting into such things," the commission had said in its initial notice. In its notice further, the NCPCR had said that it had taken action on the basis of complaints received from two Twitter handles.
The first complainant tweeted, “From normalization of minors indulging in casual sex we now have a web series showing minors having Cocaine. Screen grab from #BombayBegums where a 13 year old is snorting coke as the party she goes to is all about alcohol, drugs.”
The second complaint stated, “Dream of school girls is to send selfies with a `developed’ body part to Imran’’ Taking note of the complaints, NCPCR said that it is of the view that the series “with this type of content will not only pollute the young mind. (it) may also result in abuse and exploitation of children at the hands of perpetrators/offenders.’’
