NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear a plea challenging the Delhi High Court's order to stay the release of the film 'Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor murder', which was scheduled on July 11.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it would hear it on Wednesday or any day thereafter upon a mentioning made by the counsel for the film producers, who sought urgent listing of the plea saying that the film's release was stayed despite the censor board certification.
The counsel contended that the apex court had refused urgent listing of the plea seeking a stay on the film's release but the Delhi High Court interfered and stayed it on July 10.
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The Delhi HC had on July 10 ordered the Central government to exercise its revisional powers under Section 6 of the Cinematograph Act to examine the movie.
A batch of three petitions, including one filed by Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani, were filed before the High Court seeking a ban on the movie based on tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli's murder in Udaipur, for vilifying Muslims. The movie was slated to be released on July 11.
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The bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Anish Dayal of the High Court asked the petitioners to approach the Central government and stayed the movie release in the meantime.
The Udaipur-based tailor, was brutally murdered in June 2022, allegedly by Mohammad Riyaz and Mohammad Ghous. The murder act purportedly recorded by the accused had sent shockwaves across the country.
The case was investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and offences under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) have been framed against the accused. The trial is at present going on before the Special NIA Court, Jaipur.
