Netflix Issued Notice To Stop Streaming Bombay Begums Over Portrayal of Child Abuse

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday demanded Netflix to stop airing the newly released web series, Bombay Begums, on the grounds that its contents may result in the abuse and exploitation of children.

¡°Netflix should take extra precaution while streaming any content in respect of the children or for the children and shall also refrain themselves from getting into such things," said the government-appointed commission.

Bombay Begums / Netflix India

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights notice to the streaming platform is based on a complaint from two Twitter handles about some scenes of the show.

¡°From normalization of minors indulging in casual sex we now hate web series showing minors having cocaine,¡± the child rights body quoted one of the tweets. ¡°Screengrab from Bombay Begums where a 13-year-old is snorting coke as the party she goes to is all about alcohol, drugs.¡±

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights issues a notice to Netflix for #BombayBegums . Asks it to stop streaming the series in 24 hours. @ETPolitics pic.twitter.com/iWcVWD09IL

¡ª Vasudha Venugopal (@vasudha_ET) March 11, 2021

The commission called the Twitter user¡¯s objections ¡°serious¡±, and said that it did not allow ¡°representing, portraying and glorifying children in India in such a manner¡± on any media platform, including the internet and OTTs.

The commission has given Netflix 24 hours to stop streaming Bombay Begums or else they will take "appropriate legal action".