New Delhi: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has asked Sony Pictures Networks to take down an episode of the children's dance show ‘Super Dancer -Chapter 3’ in which a child was allegedly asked vulgar and sexually explicit questions about his parents.
According to PTI, the apex child rights body sent a notice to the Sony Pictures Networks and sought an explanation from the network why such inappropriate questions were asked to the child artist.
In the notice, the apex child rights body said it had come across a video on Twitter in which judges of a dance show asked a child vulgar and sexually explicit questions regarding his parents on stage.
"Further, the commission on viewing the said video observes that all questions asked to the minor were inappropriate and disturbing in nature and not meant to be asked to children," PTI quoted the NCPCR notice.
"Therefore, your good offices are requested to urgently take down the said episode and further send an explanation to the commission as to why such inappropriate questions were asked to the minor child artist on a kid's dance show," the NCPCR said.
It also requested Sony Pictures Networks not to stream such "inappropriate content on your channel".
'Super Dancer', the children's dance reality show, is judged by director Anurag Basu, choreographer Geeta Kapur and actor Shilpa Shetty. Television actor Rithvik Dhajani host the show along with Paritosh Tripathi.
Four seasons of the show have been aired till now. The winner of the third season was Kolkata’s Rupsa Batabyal.