Celebrities may get away for misleading ads
New Delhi, Dec 25, 2016, DHNS:
Celebrities endorsing misleading advertisements may get away with a milder punishment such as an year-long ban on endorsements, instead of a jail term as suggested by a Parliamentary panel.
A ministerial panel had considered the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee and put forth three options — steep fine, jail-term or a ban on endorsements by the celebrity found guilty of participating in misleading advertisements.
“We can at least make a beginning by accepting the last suggestion,” Consumer Affairs Minister Ramvilas Paswan said here at a function to mark the National Consumer Day.
He said the Parliamentary panel had recommended imprisonment, but a Group of Ministers that examined the report favoured relaxation in the punishment. However, those indulging in the business of manufacturing fake goods will face a stricter punishment, which may include imprisonment, Paswan said.
Many celebrities have found themselves at the wrong end of the stick while endorsing products.
Leading actors Madhuri Dixit, Amitabh Bachchan and Priety Zinta faced the wrath of consumers for endorsing Nestle’s Maggi noodles, which had come under the scanner last year.
Cricketer M S Dhoni, too, got embroiled in a controversy after a real estate developer could not deliver residential flats to home buyers by the promised date.
A ministerial panel had considered the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee and put forth three options — steep fine, jail-term or a ban on endorsements by the celebrity found guilty of participating in misleading advertisements.
“We can at least make a beginning by accepting the last suggestion,” Consumer Affairs Minister Ramvilas Paswan said here at a function to mark the National Consumer Day.
He said the Parliamentary panel had recommended imprisonment, but a Group of Ministers that examined the report favoured relaxation in the punishment. However, those indulging in the business of manufacturing fake goods will face a stricter punishment, which may include imprisonment, Paswan said.
Many celebrities have found themselves at the wrong end of the stick while endorsing products.
Leading actors Madhuri Dixit, Amitabh Bachchan and Priety Zinta faced the wrath of consumers for endorsing Nestle’s Maggi noodles, which had come under the scanner last year.
Cricketer M S Dhoni, too, got embroiled in a controversy after a real estate developer could not deliver residential flats to home buyers by the promised date.
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