NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday temporarily halted the release of the film ‘Udaipur Files’ till the Centre decides the revision plea of the petitioners challenging the grant of CBFC certification to the movie based on the Kanhaiya Lal murder case.
The film, slated to be released worldwide on Friday, revolves around the brutal murder of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, in June 2022 by Mohammad Riyaz Attari and Ghaus Mohammad by slitting his throat.
A Bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Anish Dayal was dealing with a batch of pleas, including a plea filed by Maulana Arshad Madani, the President of the Islamic cleric's body Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, seeking a direction to quash the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) certification granted to the movie.