West Bengal ban on ‘The Kerala Story’: SC agrees to take heed to plea by producers on May 12
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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court agreed to take heed to on May 12 pleas filed by makers of the controversial multilingual film ‘The Kerala Story’ tough Mamata Banerjee Govt’s option to ban the screening of the film. The plea has moreover sought security from screening the film in Tamil Nadu alleging that the movie will also be coping with a shadow ban inside the state.
Senior advocate Harish Salve talked in regards to the matter for urgent itemizing sooner than a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha. Referring to the reality that the bench had listed the plea tough Kerala HCs order of refusing to ban the movie on May 15, CJI initially proposed to moreover guidelines this plea on May 15 nevertheless when Senior Advocate Harish Salve talked about that the “makers were losing money every day,” CJI agreed to take heed to the plea on May 12.
Filmmakers inside the plea have talked about that State Government has no power to ban a movie that has been licensed for public viewing by the Central Board of Film Certification and that State Government cannot cite regulation and order factors to stop the screening of the movie, which is ready to consequence inside the violation of the fundamental rights assured to them.
Specifically as regards to Tamil Nadu, the plea says that exhibitors inside the State withdrew the film after the informal messaging by the State authorities.
“Any such ban, it has been repeatedly held, would characterize an unreasonable restriction on the fundamental correct beneath Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India to interact in free speech. The stifling of the becoming to free speech of the Petitioner, that too on a mere apprehension of unsubstantiated issues of regulation and order cannot stand as much as scrutiny beneath the Constitutional scheme,” the petition acknowledged.
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court agreed to take heed to on May 12 pleas filed by makers of the controversial multilingual film ‘The Kerala Story’ tough Mamata Banerjee Govt’s option to ban the screening of the film. The plea has moreover sought security from screening the film in Tamil Nadu alleging that the movie will also be coping with a shadow ban inside the state.
Senior advocate Harish Salve talked in regards to the matter for urgent itemizing sooner than a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha. Referring to the reality that the bench had listed the plea tough Kerala HCs order of refusing to ban the movie on May 15, CJI initially proposed to moreover guidelines this plea on May 15 nevertheless when Senior Advocate Harish Salve talked about that the “makers were losing money every day,” CJI agreed to take heed to the plea on May 12.
Filmmakers inside the plea have talked about that State Government has no power to ban a movie that has been licensed for public viewing by the Central Board of Film Certification and that State Government cannot cite regulation and order factors to stop the screening of the movie, which is ready to consequence inside the violation of the fundamental rights assured to them. googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Specifically as regards to Tamil Nadu, the plea says that exhibitors inside the State withdrew the film after the informal messaging by the State authorities.
“Any such ban, it has been repeatedly held, would characterize an unreasonable restriction on the fundamental correct beneath Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India to interact in free speech. The stifling of the becoming to free speech of the Petitioner, that too on a mere apprehension of unsubstantiated issues of regulation and order cannot stand as much as scrutiny beneath the Constitutional scheme,” the petition acknowledged.
