What: The Madras High Court on Monday, July 10, 2023 quashed a private complaint lodged against actor Dhanush, Aishwarya Rajinikanth and a few others under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply, and Distribution) Act of 2003.
Furthermore: Justice N. Anand Venkatesh allowed the quash petitions and held that smoking scenes found on the posters of the 2014 movie Velai Illa Pattadhari (VIP) would not attract the offence under Section 5 of COTPA, which prohibits only producers, suppliers, and distributors of tobacco products from advertising them.
We say: Well, stars too need to adhere to rules, right?
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