Super Dancers: Why legal notice served by NCPR with serious charges of POSCO to the judges Shilpa Shetty, Anurag Basu, Geeta Kapoor, the makers and SET?
The popular dance reality show Super Dancers is under huge controversy. The dance reality show that also includes child contestants is under fire as the judges Shilpa Shetty, Anurag Basu, and Geeta Kapoor have been served with legal notice by The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).
NCPR has also taken legal action against the makers of the dance reality show, the judges, and the channel Sony Entertainment Television (SET) under section 3 of CPCR, POCSO act 2012, among others over their behaviour.
The reason behind the allegation is a segment from the reality show when the judges are asking sexually explicit questions and making inappropriate remarks about the kid’s parents on national television.
Child is made to deliver vulgar remarks on parents on stage in a kid show
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A video clip which has gone viral on social media, the judges Shilpa Shetty, Anurag Basu and Geeta Kapoor are seen discussing about the smelly underpants of the kid contestant as well as his father.
In the video, the father is seen getting embarrassed as comments are passed about the undergarments. But that’s not all. the kid went on further and his mother often asks his father to remove his trousers and then she hits him in his bottom. The video clip went viral social media and netizens started expressing their displeasure and disappointment over the telecast of such inappropriate behaviour on national television.
NCPCR has written to Sony Pictures Networks over a video on social media showing a clip from an episode of the children's dance show Super Dancer -Chapter 3 which aired on Sony Entertainment Television where judges were allegedly seen asking a minor "vulgar & sexually explicit"… pic.twitter.com/0w6KwEF6Ye
As per the notice issued by NCPCR, which was shared by ANI, the notice read that they have issued legal action against the channel, makers of the show as well as the judges, as it read, “The Commission has come across a video on Twitter from your kid's dance show called Super Dancer Chapter 3 which was aired on Sony Entertainment Television, wherein it is seen that the judges on the show were asking the minor child vulgar and sexually explicit questions regarding his parents on stage. Further, the Commission on viewing the said video observes that all the questions asked to the minor child were inappropriate and disturbing in nature and not meant to be asked to children.”
Furthermore it said, “In view of the above, the Commission deems it appropriate to take cognizance U/s 13 ()() of CPCR Act, 2005 and observes that your channel has violated provisions under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and the Information Technology Act, 2000. Further, the Commission also observes that the said content also violates the Commission's guidelines "Guidelines for Child And Adolescent Participation In The Entertainment Industry And Any Commercial Entertainment Activity.”