Delhi HC wants 'offensive' words deleted from Honey Singh song

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday took exception to certain words of a song sung by rapper Honey Singh for a forthcoming movie, and directed the producers to delete them.
A division bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Manmohan asked the lawyer appearing for the producers of Akshay Kumar-Sonakshi Sinha starrer 'Boss' to take instructions from his client on deleting the offensive words from the song and report by Friday.
The court gave weightage to the censor board's statement to the HC that it too found the lyrics vulgar and had asked the producer to remove them.
Appearing for the board, central government standing counsel Jatan Singh said the board had examined the song on receiving complaints from various quarters. "We called the producer and told him you should delete it. They said we will mute it," he informed the bench.
At this, the bench made it clear that it favoured deletion of the words in the song that appeared to be offensive.
The HC was hearing a PIL filed against the producers of the movie arguing that the song 'Party all night' contained offensive lyrics and the film shouldn't be allowed to be released. The PIL maintained that the censor board should not have given permission to the film with the song.
Earlier, the court had issued notice to the censor board seeking its response on the PIL.
This is not the first time that Singh has found himself in the dock for controversial lyrics. In May, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had slammed him for alleged lewd lyrics of a song sung by him because of which Punjab Police had booked him for vulgarity. A case had been registered against the singer under provisions of Section 294 (singing, reciting or uttering any obscene song, ballad or words, in or near any public place) of the Indian Penal Code in Punjab's Nawanshahr town.
Singh claimed he didn't compose the song and had only sung it. The Punjab HC had directed the police to book Singh for singing songs based on sexual themes and innuendoes, adding that his "songs make us hang our heads in shame". The bench said singers like him should be boycotted as his songs were disrespectful to women.