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Mumbai:<\/strong>\u00a0The Bombay High Court on Friday issued a notice to the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) asking it to clarify why it had introduced \u201cnew rules,\u201d mandating film producers to seek re-certification of their films, after completing their subtitling.\u00a0 A division bench of Justices RM Borde and VM Deshpande issued notice to the CBFC directing it to file an affidavit in response to a petition filed by the Indian Motion Picture Producers\u2019 Association (IMPPA).<\/p>\n According to the plea filed by the IMPPA through advocate Ashok Saraogi, the CBFC introduced new set of rules in April this year, which are \u201carbitrary.\u201d The petition states, \u201cWe received a notice from the CBFC on April 27, directing us (producers) to obtain a separate censorship certificate for the film\u2019s subtitles. As per the notice, the producers have to first obtain a certificate for the movie and thereafter when subtitling is done by any producer in a different language, they are also required to obtain fresh censorship from the CBFC.\u201d<\/p>\n The petition claims that there was never such a practice wherein subtitles of any film, were required to be certified separately. \u201cEarlier certification was required only for the movie from the CBFC and there was no requirement or practice of certification for the subtitles,\u201d the plea reads.\u00a0 The petition further alleges that rules have been introduced only to \u201charass\u201d and \u201cextort money\u201d from producers. The association has also said that if these rules are implemented then their films are likely to be \u201cdelayed\u201d by months altogether.<\/p>\n Urging the bench to quash the new rules, the association has highlighted the fact that numerous programmes are freely made available on the internet and also on the television. \u201cThese programmes do not require any certification or censorship from any of the authorities,\u201d the petition notes.\u00a0 The CBFC, on the other hand, justified its rules claiming that this would ensure that producers do not add or alter the subtitles after receiving a certificate from the board.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\t <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t