vijayawada the andhra pradesh high court on wednesday issued notices to the state central governments central board of film certification cbfc star maa television film actor nagarjuna and endemol india private limited in the public interest litigation pil petitions filed contending inaction of authorities in containing obscene content in big boss reality showthe high court observed that there is no use in lodging a complaint after the show has been telecast it is like conducting a postmortem said the benchthere must be a regulatory mechanism to censor obscene content someone must bell the cat said the high court bench comprising justice u durga prasad rao and justice p venkata jyothirmaitelugu yuva shakti president and film producer ketireddy jagadeeswar reddy filed two public interest litigation pil petitions alleging that the big boss reality show is being telecast without any censorship arguing on behalf of the petitioner g shiva prasad reddy said that the content in big boss show is not suitable for children any show which contains adult content must be telecasted after 11 pm and before 5 amarguing on behalf of endemol private limited senior counsel c raghu said that the big boss show is not being telecast now the petitions have become infructuous now he addedarguing on behalf of star india private limited maa tv senior counsel c v mohan reddy said that there is no provision for censorship before the show is telecast he said that the viewers can raise a complaint if they have any grievancemohan reddy further argued that according to cable network act three tier grievance redressal mechanism is in place if the show has to be censored before it is telecast the union government should make a legislation he said if the viewers do not like the content of the show they can simply change the channel he said there has been a lot of change in the content of films when compared to olden days and presentday movies and the television shows are no exception as they come under freedom of expression under article 19 of the constitution he arguedconsidering the submissions on all sides the high court bench observed that if all the tv channels start to telecast obscene content in the garb of freedom of expression moral values of our society will be at stake someone should take responsibility to regulate the content we will examine the matter within the purview of the powers of the high court to direct the union government to take necessary steps for regulation of content as conducting postmortem after the show is aired is of no use said the benchdirecting the respondents to file counter affidavits in the petitions the high court posted the matter for further hearing after four weeks