By: Eastern Eye Staff
The Supreme Court had last year made it mandatory to play the national anthem before a movie. In a significant change of stance, Supreme Court on Monday indicated that it may modify its order of December 1, 2016, by which the playing of the anthem was made mandatory for cinema halls before the screening of a movie, and it may replace the word “shall” with “may”. “Just because someone doesn’t sing the national anthem in cinema halls, they do not become less patriotic,” Justice Chandrachud said. “One doesn’t have to wear patriotism up his sleeves all the time. People are…
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