Pehredaar Piya Ki

Ratan Singh

Afaan Khan

Diya

Tejaswi Prakash Wayangankar

PTI

After facing flak for its alleged “inappropriate” content for kids, television showwill be taking a 12-year leap. Since its inception, the TV show has been in the news for wrong reasons, as it is based on marital relationship of a 10-year-old boy with an 18-year-old girl.The plot of the show revolves around young royal boy, played by, whose father on deathbed urges, played by, to marry his young son and protect his life and throne. The girl obliges and rest is history.Even though, only a handful of episodes have been screened, the show was under scanner for showing the unusual couple sharing a bed together after marriage. Also, objections were made when the young boy was shown stalking the girl as she walks around.Taking cue of situations, the television’s self regulatory body, BCCC, has directed Sony channel to move its controversial daily soap 'Pehredaar Piya Ki' to the 10 pm slot so that minors do not watch it, and run it with a scroll saying it does not promote child marriage, its chairman had toldA disclaimer has to run saying that the show does not promote child marriage and is a work of fiction, said an official from the body.More than one lakh people had signed a petition on change.org urging Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani to ban the show.