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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Supreme Court of India(SCI)forms panel to frame guidelines on govt ads Wednesday April 23,2014


The Supreme Court on Wednesday April 23,2014 set up a committee for framing guidelines to prevent misuse of public funds by the Govt and its authorities in giving advertisements in newspapers and television to get political mileage. 

A Bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam said that substantive guidelines are needed to regulate such advertisements at the cost of public exchequer and constituted a four—member committee comprising former Director of National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, N R Madhava Menon, former Lok Sabha Secretary T K Viswanathan, senior advocate Ranjit Kumar and the Secretary of Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
The apex court asked the committee to submit its report within three months.
The court passed the order on a PIL filed by NGOs, Common Cause and Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) pleading with it to frame guildelines.
The petition has sought issuance of guidelines for curbing ruling parties from taking political mileage by projecting their leaders in official advertisements

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