The Board of Directors of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has appointed former Supreme Court judge Justice Vikramajit Sen as the new Chair
person of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC), the independent self-regulatory body set up by the Foundation in June 2011 to examine content-related complaints relating to all non-news general entertainment channels in India.
Justice Sen succeeds former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice, Justice Mukul Mudgal, whose three-year term as BCCC Chairperson has come to an end.
A delegation of the IBF Board, led by the Foundation's President, Punit Goenka, and comprising its Directors Aroon Purie, Rajat Sharma, Uday Shankar and I Venkat, met Justice Sen and invited him to chair the BCCC for the next three years.
Justice Vikramajit Sen, an alumnus of St Xavier's School (Delhi) and St Stephen's College (Delhi), earned his degree in law from Faculty of law, Delhi University. After a long tenure as a Judge of the Delhi High Court, he was appointed the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court and elevated as a judge of the SC in 2012, an office he served till December 2015.