{"id":284656,"date":"2018-01-09T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284656"},"modified":"2018-01-09T14:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:58:20","slug":"national-anthem-not-mandatory-in-cinema-halls-sc-modifies-earlier-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/national-anthem-not-mandatory-in-cinema-halls-sc-modifies-earlier-order\/","title":{"rendered":"National anthem not mandatory in cinema halls, SC modifies earlier order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/national-anthem.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-284657 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/national-anthem-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"national-anthem\" width=\"332\" height=\"206\" data-id=\"284657\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0Supreme Court on January 9 modified its earlier order on playing of\u00a0National Anthem before movie screenings in cinema halls and made it non-mandatory.<br \/>\nIn 2016, the initial order made it compulsory to &#8220;stand up in respect&#8221; in theatres till the anthem ended.<br \/>\n\u201cThe practice would &#8220;instill a feeling within one, a sense of committed patriotism and nationalism,&#8221;\u00a0 the bench\u00a0led by Justice Dipak Misra had ruled in 2016.<br \/>\nAfter an appeal to recall the order, another bench of the court, which also included Chief Justice Misra modified its last order.<br \/>\n&#8220;People do not need to stand up at a cinema hall to be perceived as patriotic,&#8221; the court said. It &#8220;cannot be assumed that if a person does not stand up for national anthem, then he is less patriotic,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Supreme Court on January 9 modified its earlier order on playing of\u00a0National Anthem before movie screenings in cinema halls and made it non-mandatory. In 2016, the initial order made it compulsory to &#8220;stand up in respect&#8221; in theatres till the anthem ended. \u201cThe practice would &#8220;instill a feeling within one, a sense of committed patriotism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[140,141,134,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}