B. SUBHASHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a public interest litigation initialed by two practising advocates espousing cause of judiciary for deleting the two offending scenes in the feature film Gentleman, which was produced in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages. The two offending scenes objected by the petitioners are: (1) the Judge presiding the Court stands up and says Namaskars to the Chief Minister when he enters the Court hall on being called at the instance of the hero, who was made accused and who accuses the Chief Minister, and (2) the statue of Goddess of Justice holding scales containing currency notes.

( 2 ) THE writ petition was admitted on 5-12-1994 and notices were issued to the respondents. As on that day, this Court (incidentally I was the admission Judge) was not aware of the said scenes and there was difficulty in passing orders without there being uncontroverted fact. Now a counter is filed sworn in by one Mr. D. Kailasa Prasad, Director, Central Board of Film Certification, 5th respondent herein and also on behalf of respondents 4 and 6 herein, viz. , the Central Board of Film Certification, Bombay and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, represented by its Secr

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