Pehredaar Piya Ki shifted to 10 pm slot

The Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) has directed Sony channel to move its daily soap Pehredaar Piya Ki to the 10 pm slot and run it with a scroll saying it does not promote child marriage.

The serial, which began airing last month, focuses on a nine-year-old boy, Ratan (Afaan Khan), and his marriage to 18-year-old Diya (Tejasswi Prakash).

 The Council has ordered the channel to shift the show to 10 pm, the restrictive hour on the small screen, from its current slot of 8.30 pm. A scroll has to run saying that the show does not promote child marriage and is a work of fiction, said an official from the body.

    Today's meeting was the first chaired by BCCC's new chief, Justice (retd) Vikramajit Sen. Though elders are awake at 10 pm, BCCC wants to ensure that minors are not able to see the show.

He added that that they ordered a scroll to be run since they did not want any misinterpretation that the show advocates child marriage. —PTI