The Board of Directors of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has appointed former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Vikramajit Sen, as the new Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC), the independent self-regulatory body set up by the Foundation in June 2011 to examine content-related complaints relating to all non-news general entertainment channels in India.
Justice Sen succeeds former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Justice Mukul Mudgal whose three-year term as BCCC Chairperson has come to an end.
A delegation of the IBF Board, led by the Foundation's President, Mr. Punit Goenka, and comprising its Directors Mr. Aroon Purie, Mr. Rajat Sharma, Mr. Uday Shankar and Mr. I. Venkat, met Justice Sen and invited him to chair the BCCC for the next three years.
Justice Vikramajit Sen, an alumnus of St. Xavier's School (Delhi) and St. Stephen's College (Delhi), earned his degree in Law from Faculty of Law, Delhi University. After a long tenure as a Judge of the Delhi High Court, he was appointed Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court and elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2012, an office he served till December 2015.
In its six-year-long journey, BCCC, which is a 13-member body, has handled more than 40,000 content-related complaints. The Council's 67th meeting, under the stewardship of its new Chairperson Justice Vikramajit Sen, will be held in August.
Former Chief Justice of Madras and Delhi high courts and former Chairperson of Law Commission of India, Justice A.P. Shah, was the founding Chairperson of BCCC.
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By IndianMandarins - 2017-07-12 18:01:13
The Board of Directors of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) has appointed former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Vikramajit Sen, as the new Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC), the independent self-regulatory body set up by the Foundation in June 2011 to examine content-related complaints relating to all non-news general entertainment channels in India.
Justice Sen succeeds former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Justice Mukul Mudgal whose three-year term as BCCC Chairperson has come to an end.
A delegation of the IBF Board, led by the Foundation's President, Mr. Punit Goenka, and comprising its Directors Mr. Aroon Purie, Mr. Rajat Sharma, Mr. Uday Shankar and Mr. I. Venkat, met Justice Sen and invited him to chair the BCCC for the next three years.
Justice Vikramajit Sen, an alumnus of St. Xavier's School (Delhi) and St. Stephen's College (Delhi), earned his degree in Law from Faculty of Law, Delhi University. After a long tenure as a Judge of the Delhi High Court, he was appointed Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court and elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2012, an office he served till December 2015.
In its six-year-long journey, BCCC, which is a 13-member body, has handled more than 40,000 content-related complaints. The Council's 67th meeting, under the stewardship of its new Chairperson Justice Vikramajit Sen, will be held in August.
Former Chief Justice of Madras and Delhi high courts and former Chairperson of Law Commission of India, Justice A.P. Shah, was the founding Chairperson of BCCC.
