MEDIA, PR, ADVERTISING

Health Mins slaps 5-year jail and 50-lakh fine for ads selling Fairness products

Advertisements play a vital function in shaping someone’s belief device.
Women with dusky complexions have suffered an excellent amount of stigma and shame approximately how they appear and we’ve society’s unrealistic standards of splendor guilty for that. it’s miles excessive-time that commercials promoting such splendor standards be penalized or delivered down altogether.
Taking a measure to this problem, the Health Ministry has proposed five years of imprisonment and Rs 50 lakh quality for “deceptive classified ads” of merchandise selling now not just fair skin but additionally anti-hair-loss, sexual overall performance, and others.

If convicted for the first time, a prison term of 2 years and a fine of Rs 10 lakhs could be imposed. if convicted for the second one time, a jail time period of five years and a nice of rs 50 lakhs might be imposed.

The Ministry has launched a draft of the medicine and magic treatments (objectionableCommercials) (change) invoice 2020 for public comments. it is supposed to save you “gullible or vulnerable individuals of the general public” from being “exploited” through agencies via commercials.

The draft has improved the definition of an advertisement to cover those proven in digital media, social media, and web sites.

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