Can't ban lingerie-clad mannequins: Civic chief tells corporator

Updated On: 01 February, 2014 02:35 PM IST | | Sujit Mahamulkar

<p>Sitaram Kunte rejects Ritu Tawde’s proposal for punishing shops that have these dummys on display, but says state can initiate action under Indecent Representation of Woman (Prohibition) Act</p>

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Can't ban lingerie-clad mannequins: Civic chief tells corporator

Four months after BMC corporators passed a resolution to ban mannequins sporting lingerie, Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte dismissed it saying that there was no provision in the civic law to ban display of lingerie-clad mannequins.

Ritu Tawde points at a lingerie-clad mannequin she found offensive while surveying a market in her ward in Ghatkopar last year. File pics