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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025) gave its motion to the merchandise of Farhan Akhtar starrer movie ‘120 Bahadur’, closing a plea challenging its Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) certification connected the grounds that it distorts humanities facts.
The tribunal noted it was excessively precocious to alteration the sanction and merchandise day of the movie and that the producers person mentioned the names of the soldiers astatine the extremity of the movie successful the signifier of a peculiar tribute.
The tribunal closed the petition aft the counsel for the petitioner Sanyukt Ahir Regiment Morcha, a charitable trust, its trustee, and household members of galore soldiers who died successful the Battle of Rezang La successful 1962, said they are consenting to judge the rubric of the movie if the names of each soldiers are mentioned.
The tribunal said the petitioners whitethorn ticker the movie and spot the names of 120 soldiers having featured successful the movie and if immoderate alteration oregon correction is required, it should beryllium done for the over-the-top (OTT) release.
The petitioner challenged the CBFC certificate fixed to the film, alleging it distorts humanities facts and demanded a alteration successful the film’s name.
The movie portrays Major Shaitan Singh Bhati, who was posthumously conferred the Param Vir Chakra for bravery successful the Battle of Rezang La.
The petition said the battle, fought astatine an altitude of 18,000 feet successful the Chushul assemblage of Ladakh, and successful which 114 of the 120 soldiers were killed, is acknowledged successful the History Division of the Ministry of Defence arsenic the epitome of corporate valour.
The company, composed predominantly of (113) Ahir (Yadav) soldiers from Rewari and adjoining regions, defended the Rezang La Pass - the archetypal enactment of defence of the Chushul airfield with unparalleled courageousness and devotion to duty, it said.
The petitioners challenged the certificate and impending merchandise of the film, which, it alleged, purports to picture the conflict but distorts humanities information by singularly glorifying Major Shaitan Singh arsenic a lone protagonist nether the fictionalised sanction ‘Bhati’.
It said the movie erases the corporate identity, regimental pridefulness and publication of the Ahir soldiers who fought and fell beside Major Shaitan Singh.
The movie is slated to deed theatres connected November 21.
