Actor Dia Mirza
And these are stray thoughts of one or two persons,” said Justice Kulkarni Hearing a suo motu PIL on festival noise and air pollution due to firecrackers, HC had on Oct 26 said it expected celebrities to voluntarily come forward to spread awareness.
MUMBAI: Bombay HC said it’s “unfortunate” BMC had removed from its social media pages a video of actor Dia Mirza urging citizens to avoid crackers as part of the anti-pollution drive. It suggested the post be “put back” to restore people’s confidence, reports Rosy Sequeira. HC said it was “disturbed by comments in regard to celebrities who had participated and assisted in public cause”. It further said, “There could not have been any other colour which could be given, and more particularly, when there are court directions. Pointing out that it was “really upset” over actor Dia Mirza’s post being removed, Justices Girish Kulkarni and Neela Gokhale said, “We would desire that in the event any goodwill message of any celebrity was taken off from the corporation’s social media, it would be ideal if the same is put back in the spirit of what Supreme Court observed that the festival is for everybody to celebrate. ” Justice Kulkarni said they didn’t approve of BMC’s move. The judges said Mirza “had rendered a very very good message in terms of environment, noise pollution and air pollution”. Most unfortunate,” said Justice Kulkarni. On Tuesday, the judges told BMC’s advocate Joel Carlos to congratulate civic chief Ashwini Bhide for the “impeccable steps she has taken”, particularly by getting celebrities to spread awareness. State’s advocate Jyoti Chavan said the HC order had created so much goodwill that celebrities “suo motu approached us”.
It asked, “How do you object to a person’s participation? Are we not a secular country? “Somebody is voluntarily coming forward, who has always been associated with social causes, and you are going to reprimand that person. “There was nothing. There was no question of objection. No question of giving any colour. HC suggested that BMC reupload the video. “…it should not have been taken off… please put it again and restore the confidence of the people in the Constitution and society… This is a constitutional requirement, not this kind of thought.
