Additional Solicitor General has been ordered to study condom and other contraceptive packets to determine if their pictures are too racy and should be banned, according to reports.
ASG Maninder Singh must spend six weeks poring over sexy photographs, often of scantily clad women or couples in steamy embraces, promoting the products after the Supreme Court said they may breach obscenity laws.
“Do you have any plan to regulate such advertisementsIJ” a Supreme Court bench was quoted by the Indian Express asking Singh, the Government’s third-ranked legal officer.
“You also have to tell us if such advertisements may constitute a penal offence,” the newspaper reported the bench as saying.
Singh’s office confirmed to AFP that the court issued the order on Tuesday, but declined to comment further.