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Don’t Have To Stand Up For National Anthem Played As Part Of A Film, Clarifies Supreme Court
Audience members stand for the Indian national anthem before a movie starts at a cinema in New Delhi. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court today (14 February) clarified that people are not obliged to stand up when the national anthem is played as part of a film or documentary. The verdict also says that people don't need to sing the national anthem when it is being played before the screening of a film.
On 30 November 2016, the apex court passed an order making it compulsory for all movie theatres to play the national anthem before each screening for what it called 'the love of the motherland'. A bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Dipak Misra, had passed the order while hearing the petition filed by Shyam Narayan Chouksey.
While pronouncing the ruling, the apex court had said,
With inputs from ANI
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