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Sacred Games: Actors not liable for dialogues, says Delhi High Court; Rahul hailed for stand

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Sacred Games: Actors not liable for dialogues, says Delhi High Court; Rahul hailed for stand

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Actors cannot be held liable for the dialogues they deliver, said the Delhi High Court on Monday, July 16, while hearing a plea filed against Netflix and its web series Sacred Games for allegedly defaming former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in an episode.

Meanwhile Rajiv Gandhi’s son and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who said that he believed freedom of expression should not be policed, earned praise from co-director Anurag Kashyap and actor Swara Bhasker.

Hearing the case, the Delhi High Court asked whether an actor can be held liable for the dialogues and does it amount to defamation. The court was hearing a plea filed by Nikhil Bhalla seeking directions for the removal of offensive scenes and derogatory remarks about former PM Rajiv Gandhi and his family in the serial Sacred Games aired by Netflix.

“Why have you made the actor as a party to the case? Can we stop a viewpoint from being aired? Should we stall such a viewpoint from being aired? Shouldn’t the viewer make up his own point?” the high court bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar asked.

The lawyers appearing for Netflix told the bench that all eight episodes have already been aired and more aren’t planned as of now.

The bench asked the petitioner: “It is already on air. What do we stop?”

Petitioner submitted that there are two scenes where English translation has a different derogatory word. They have modified some but need to take out these scenes. It is a scene against a former PM for now, what happens next? Would these be the standards that are aired?

Bench questioned petitioner, can the court hear an issue of defamation in a PIL? This will have larger implication.

However, bench gave sometime to the petitioner to justify its locus in the petition while adjourning the hearing to Thursday, July 19.

Sacred Games is in the eye of storm for allegedly portraying Gandhi family in bad light. Emergency, Shah Bano moves by the Congress party have been featured in the series, inviting condemnation from some Congress leaders.

The series is based on Vikram Chandra’s 2006 thriller novel of the same name and is produced by Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment’s Phantom Films joint venture. Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Saif Ali Khan and Radhika Apte are in the lead roles.

After the plea was filed in the Delhi High Court seeking removal of certain scenes from “Sacred Games”, claiming that some of its content was derogatory to Rajiv Gandhi – and a police complaint filed by a Congress activist in Kolkata against the producers of the web series and actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui over the issue – Rahul Gandhi tweeted on July 14 (Saturday): “BJP/RSS believe the freedom of expression must be policed & controlled. I believe this freedom is a fundamental democratic right.

My father lived and died in the service of India. The views of a character on a fictional web series can never change that.#SacredGames”[/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]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[/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]”That’s a yay,” said Mr Kashyap quoting Rahul Gandhi’s tweet.

Swara Bhasker also supported Rahul Gandhi, saying it is “gracious” how Rahul Gandhi is able to keep personal and national interests aside.

“It is impressive that a mainstream politician like @RahulGandhi is taking this clear and progressive stand on freedom of expression and censorship. Also it’s gracious and mature that he is able to set aside the personal for the larger goal of democratic rights. #CreditWhereDue,” Swara tweeted.

But director Madhur Bhandarkar reacted to the tweet too, posting a video, which he claimed was “a compilation of the harrowing experience” he faced around the release of his film ‘Indu Sarkar’ that had been seen to be critical of Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi – Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother.

Bhandarkar alleged Congress party workers “tried to police & control my FOE (freedom of expression)”.

Amit Malviya, head of BJP’s IT cell replied to Madhur Bhandarkar’s tweet, saying Rahul Gandhi “is no champion of free speech”. In the tweet, he questioned the commitment to the freedom of expression of generations of Gandhi family members “from Nehru to Indira then Rajiv and most recently Sonia”, and ended by raking up unrelated topic to say Rajiv Gandhi’s “legacy of Bofors & Shah Bano are well known to the people of India”.

The complaints against Sacred Games serial have as of now, not been withdrawn yet, despite Rahul Gandhi’s tweet.

The first season of the show, comprising eight episodes, was released on July 6 and is available in 190 countries in four language.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Zomato introduces Food Rescue feature

“We don’t encourage order cancellation at Zomato, because it leads to a tremendous amount of food wastage,” he said.

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Zomato has introduced a new feature called Food Rescue to minimise food wastage, announced the CEO of online food delivery platform Deepinder Goyal on Sunday.

Announcing the new feature, Goyal said the decision, to introduce the new feature, was taken to prevent the tremendous amount of food wastage due to order cancellation on the platform.

Committed to minimising food wastage, the Zomato boss said: “We don’t encourage order cancellation at Zomato, because it leads to a tremendous amount of food wastage.”

Goyal said despite having stringent policies, and a no-refund policy for cancellations, more than 4 lakh perfectly good orders get cancelled, for various reasons by customers.

He said the top concern for the online food delivery platform, the restaurant industry, and even the customers who cancel these orders, is to somehow save the food from going to waste.

With the introduction of the new feature, Food Rescue, cancelled orders will now pop up for nearby customers, who can grab them at an unbeatable price, in their original untampered packaging, and receive them in just minutes.

According to Zomato, the cancelled order will pop up on the app for customers within a 3 km radius of the delivery partner carrying the order. To ensure freshness, the option to claim will only be available for a few minutes.

The online food delivery platform will not keep any proceeds except the required government taxes and the amount paid by the new customer will be shared with the original customer (if they made payment online) and with the restaurant partner.

Orders containing items sensitive to distances or temperature such as ice creams, shakes, smoothies, and certain perishable items, will not be eligible for Food Rescue.

Restaurant partners will continue to receive compensation for the original cancelled order, plus a portion of the amount paid by the new customer if the order is claimed, the app said. “Most restaurants have opted in for this feature, and can opt of it easily whenever they want, directly from their control panels,” it added.

The delivery partners will be compensated fully for the entire trip, from the initial pickup to the final drop-off at the new customer’s location, it said.

Food Rescue will show up on the customers’ home page automatically if there’s a cancelled order available for them to grab. The Customers have to refresh the home page to check for any newly available orders which need to be rescued.

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Rahul Gandhi takes a jibe at PM Modi over his unity remarks

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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘Ek hai toh safe hai’ remarks.

Sharing a picture featuring PM Modi, Industrialist Gautam Adani, SEBI chief Madhabi Puri Buch and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, the former Congress president wrote in Hindi, “’Mann ki baat, ab jubaan pe’ (What is in the heart, now on the tongue).”

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In Jharkhand, PM Modi says people are hankering for a handful of sand, Congress-JMM smuggling it

JMM-Congress have nothing to do with the issue of the people, they are filling their coffers, Modi said.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lashed out at the Congress-JMM coalition over its corruption, saying the alliance is busy selling rivers, streams, and mountains in the state, adding their leaders, in fact, have built houses by smuggling sand. PM Modi alleged that they are taking bribes even for birth and death certificates.

Addressing the rally in Jharkhand’s Gumala, the Prime Minister said: “This is your money, you are its owner and Modi will not let your money be looted.” He added that “those who have looted will have to return it and spend their lives in jail” once his party comes to power in the state.

JMM-Congress have nothing to do with the issue of the people, they are filling their coffers, Modi said.

Hitting out at the alliance, PM Modi said: “You have seen the mountains of notes of the JMM and Congress leaders and ministers. I have been a Chief Minister and even become a Prime Minister, but I have never seen such huge mountains of notes in my life. I saw such mountains for the first time on TV. So many notes came out that the machines got tired of counting them.”

“If you divide into castes then the strength of the tribals will diminish. That’s why I say – if we stay united, we will be safe,” he reiterated his statement targeting the Congress party.

Till there was no unity between OBCs, tribals and Dalits, the Congress kept forming governments at the Centre, claimed Modi.

“Beware of Congress-JMM’s evil designs and conspiracies. They can go to any extent to snatch power. Congress has been an opponent of SC, ST, and OBC unity since Independence,” Modi said.

“More than 125 sub-castes are considered OBCs in the Chotanagpur region. Congress-JMM wants to break the OBC unity by pitting sub-castes against each other. I warn you ‘ek rahoge toh safe rahoge’,” he added. He said a BJP-led government was needed in Jharkhand to drive out infiltrators and eradicate corruption.

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