An inter-ministerial panel in Bangladesh Wednesday recommended summary trial of producers, distributors and exhibitors of "obscene" films.

Announcing the panel's recommendations, Information Minister M. Shamsul Islam said the government was committed to preventing the making and exhibition of obscene films and publicising them through posters.

"The existing law does not help fully to bring them to book as these have become outdated," he said.

The minister said the government would soon amend the laws to bring them in tune with the times.

The committee said lack of proper monitoring often encouraged producers to make obscene movies.

It identified advertisements of obscene films, relay of obscene films through satellite channels and their video piracy as major causes for increase in obscene films. Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka last week told film directors that he would take action if vulgar posters were displayed anywhere in the city.