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Sandeep Bhat
Jammu, May 5—Despite clear instructions from the Additional District Magistrate for cleaning up, the walls in Jammu city are still splattered with obscene posters.
As per the order, no poster, advertisement, sketch, synopsis or programmes of films shall be displayed outside the licensed space meant for this purpose.
Despite the clearly worded order no action has been taken by the concerned cinema owners to remove the same.
The failure to remove the obscene posters from the walls is causing a lot of problems to the common man, particularly college going girls and housewives.
Here it must be mentioned the order to remove obscene posters have been issued many times, but it is observed more in violation than implementation.
Although the posters vanished for sometime but they reappear as soon as the authorities become lax. Cinema owners, however, maintain that there was nothing obscene in these as these were promotional posters supplied by film distributors.
Most of the prominent places like Jewel Chowk, Bikram chowk, Satwari, Parade and various bus stops, markets and even walls of houses can be seen pasted with obscene posters.
The posters can be seen even outside colleges and schools as these are apparently aimed at targeting the students.
Rashmi Sharma, a housewife, complained that her house was near a cinema where adult movies were screened most of the time. The owners pasted indecent posters on walls near her house. “The owners are pasting indecent posters, ignoring their social responsibilities. I have two grown-up daughters and they feel awkward while going out,” she said.
Meanwhile, one of the cinema owners said “It is not that we intend to paste such posters only. The posters of most of the Hindi movies are like that. We have to publicize the movie, so we paste the posters to attract the moviegoers,” said the owner.
Under the J&K Prevention of Defacement of Property Act 1985, any person, who defaces the any property in public view of writing or marking with ink, paint, or any other material shall be punishable under the act. In case any violation is reported, serious view will be taken against the defaulter.
Meanwhile, Jammu residents have have demanded that the administration should conduct surprise checking in various areas regularly so that cinema owners do not violate the Act.
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