Petition filed to take away Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from caller tune on COVID-19 consciousness

A PIL has been filed within the Delhi High Court searching for route to the Centre to take away megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from the caller tune on precautions in opposition to coronavirus on the grounds that he himself, together with some members of the family, had been contaminated by the virus.
The plea, which stated there have been some well-known corona warriors who have been keen to provide their companies free of charge, got here up for listening to on Thursday earlier than a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh.
The bench listed it for January 18 because the petitioner’s counsel expressed lack of ability to look for bodily listening to.
The petition, filed by Delhi resident and social employee Rakesh, stated the federal government engaged Bachchan for making folks conscious of preventive measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic whereas the famous person himself in addition to different members of his household couldn’t escape it.
“The government of India has been paying fees to Amitabh Bachchan for chanting preventive measures on the caller ringtone”, stated the plea, filed by way of advocates A Okay Dubey and Pawan Kumar.

“There are some corona warriors who have been doing great service to the nation and helping poor and needy people in these times as well as providing them food, cloth and shelter and it is very indispensable to mention herein that some corona warriors have distributed their hard earnings among the poor”, the plea stated.
It added that some well-known corona warriors are nonetheless prepared to provide their companies with none fee and are able to serve the nation.
“Amitabh Bachchan is not having a clean history and he is not serving the nation by being a social worker”, the plea alleged whereas referring to a number of issues pending in opposition to him in varied courts.