The Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS) (Maharashtra Blind faith Eradication Committee), a voluntary organisation, has questioned if such telecast of ghost and horror episodes or advertising so-called supernatural powers is permissible under the law.
Samiti founder Chairman Dr Narendra Dabholkar and prominent activist Avinash Patil have asked the state government to take a lead in ensuring such content is banned from TV.
"Television is a powerful audio-visual medium having a strong impact. In last decade, television has reached the remotest corners catering to not only the educated masses but illiterate people living in distinct villages," Patil said.
"There are channels devoted to news, religious preaching, and entertainment but other types of serials, ghost and horror serials are becoming more and more popular among the spectators and more so among children," he said.
Television is also used for advertising hundreds of products brought in market like golden rings, pearls, stones, yantras, kavach which the advertisers claim to be endowed with supernatural power, he said.
After being bombarded by such advertisements, the common man tends to go for such things and later realises that he has been cheated. In this way, millions of people are victimised, he said.