Founded in June 2011, BCCC is the unbiased self-regulatory body arrange by the IBF to look at content-related complaints regarding all non-news and common leisure channels in India.
Mittal will succeed former supreme courtroom choose, Justice Vikramajit Sen, whose tenure as BCCC chairperson has ended.
“I look ahead to becoming a member of BCCC in its distinctive journey of self-regulation, which additionally guarantees to be an thrilling and difficult one,” Mittal stated.
The 13-member BCCC, which is in its tenth yr of operation, has addressed greater than 96,000 content-related complaints.
Justice Gita Mittal, who served as the primary girl Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court, can also be the primary girl chairperson of BCCC.
An alumnus of Lady Irwin School and Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, Mittal earned her diploma in regulation from Faculty of Law, Delhi University.
After serving as a choose and performing chief justice of the Delhi High Court, she was appointed the chief justice of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court in August 2018.