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Call for regulating crime coverage on television

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Congress MP demands action against absconding NRI grooms

‘Serve red-corner notices and involve Interpol to bring back the grooms’
‘Re-enactment of crime events by TV channels adversely impacting youth’

HYDERABAD: Congress MP V. Hanumanth Rao has asked the State government to take steps to regulate the crime content being telecast on some private channels as the programmes were influencing youth to commit crime.

Mr. Hanumanth Rao also wanted the government to keep a watch on the non-resident Indians who married girls hailing from the State, accepted dowries and absconded few days later.

The MP, accompanied by families of two victims whose husbands were absconding, met Home Minister K. Jana Reddy on Monday and urged him to take steps to check this kind of white-collar crime that was on the rise.

Stern action

Speaking to reporters later, he said the government should take steps to serve red-corner notices and involve the Interpol in bringing back those who left the country leaving the families of the victims in lurch.

Stern action against those indulging in such incidents would go a long way in preventing others to commit the crime.

He said the re-enactment of crime events, like murder and rape, using dupes, by the television channels were adversely impacting the youth.

One of the accused in Ayesha Meera murder case, Satyam Babu admitted that he committed several crimes after watching the crime serials on television.

Mr. Hanumanth Rao said he had represented the matter to the Union government already, but no steps had been initiated to regulate the content in the channels.

He wanted the State government to register cases against channels telecasting the crime incidents and to ensure a debate on it in the Assembly for evolving methods to check the menace.

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