PEPSI
AD 'GLORIFYING' CHILD LABOUR OFF AIR
Just when the cola giants were thinking they had survived the
pesticide controversy, Pepsi has landed in another soup.
This time it involves
an issue that the US government has been using for imposing
bans on Indian exports. The recent commercial of Pepsi, which
shows a boy taking Pepsi bottles to cricketers on the ground,
has come under the scanner of child labour activists.
The Andhra Pradesh
High Court has issued an order banning the television ad on
a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by an activist.
The court has said
no advertisement should be televised "depicting or glorifying
child labour, until further orders
