Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has asked nine satellite TV channels to come together and work out self-censorship norms over airing of adult movies and programmes.

A Bench of Chief Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice D Y Chandrachud gave the order on a PIL filed by a teacher of St Xavier college Pratibha Naithani who contended that once a film has been rated 'A' by Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), it cannot be shown on TV.

Earlier, the Bench had restrained satellite channels from beaming adult movies or programmes without prior permission of CBFC.

On September 1, the respondents namely Star TV, Sony TV, Zee TV, Udaya TV, AXN TV, Surya TV were restrained from showing such programmes and were also asked to file affidavits stating how many adult movies were shown during last three months and at what time.

However, only Sony TV filed an affidavit stating that it had shown 25 adult movies in the last three months.

Naithani's counsel M M Vashi pointed out that films like "Kamasutra" and "Bandit Queen" were being shown on various TV channels. He also said that programmes with explicit contents like "Wild On", "Sex And The City" were being aired without any permission from CBFC.

He claimed that such songs and trailers were affecting the psyche of children having an adverse effect on them.

Vashi contended that in spite of several complaints about the same, no action had been taken by the Commissioner of Police.