Staff Correspondent: The High Court has directed to draft a guideline to operate OTT (over the top) media including Heichoi, Netflix, Amazon, Bangabd. The BTRC chairman and information secretary have been asked to report on the draft policy in three months.

A division bench of the High Court comprising Justice JBM Hasan and Justice Khairul Alam passed the order on Monday (January 18) while hearing a writ petition on the issue.. Earlier, two reports from BTRC and Cyber ​​Police Center were submitted to the High Court.

The BTRC report reads that they do not collect any revenue from these platforms as there is no specific guideline or regulation.

Similarly, the Cyber ​​Police Center reports that it cannot take any measures against the misuse of OTT due to absence of a specific guideline, although there are digital security laws and pornography laws..

On September 8, the High Court issued a rule asking why the authorities' inaction in removing parts of 'obscene and immoral' videos from web series spread through the Internet (OTT platform), including Netflix and Hitchhikers, would not be declared illegal.

The writ petition was submited by Md Tanvir Ahmed, a lawyer of Supre Court.