New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to submit the guidelines and regulations issued to stop frequent unsolicited calls made by various banks and mobile service providers to cellphone users.
Terming unsolicited telemarketing calls to cell phone users as "nuisance", a two-member bench headed by Justice AK Mathur asked the government to submit the rules and regulation by the next date of hearing, which is July 27.
The move comes after Vivek Tankha, counsel for petitioner Harsh Pathak, told the court that despite the government's persistent claims of various steps taken to stop telemarketing calls, it has done nothing to put an end to the woes of the telephone subscribers and protect their privacy.
Pathak had filed a public interest litigation against indiscriminate telemarketing calls, contending that these calls invaded privacy of the citizens as they are made at odd hours without any concern that they might be interfering and distracting the attention of a phone user from a possibly important work.
On Pathak's lawsuit, the court had earlier issued notices to the Ministry of Law and Justice, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, Hutch, Reliance Infocomm, Idea Cellular, Bharti Tele-Ventures and Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, HDFC and ICICI.
(With agency inputs)
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