New Delhi, April 28 -- The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre, OTT and social media platforms on a PIL seeking direction to take appropriate steps to prohibit the streaming of obscene content.

A bench of Justices BR Gavai and AG Masih observed that the plea raised an issue of "important concern" and sought response from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Alt Balaji, Ullu, ALTT, X (formerly Twitter), Meta Inc, Google, Mubi, Apple and others on the PIL seeking regulation of obscene content on OTT platforms and social media.

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain appearing for the petition, highlighted the issue of content circulating on OTT platforms and social media without any form of regulation or checks.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, re...