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The Madras High Court connected Tuesday (February 10, 2026) permitted the accumulation steadfast of actor Vijay-starrer Jana Nayagan to withdraw a writ petition filed by it connected January 6, 2026, seeking a absorption to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to contented a U/A 16+ certificate to the movie wrong 24 hours.
Justice P.T. Asha dismissed the writ petition arsenic withdrawn aft Vijayan Subramanian, counsel for KVN Productions LLP, filed a missive earlier the High Court Registry stating the accumulation steadfast had decided to judge the CBFC chairman’s notation to the revising committee, comprising 9 members.
The court’s support to retreat the petition has cleared the ineligible hurdles successful the mode of the CBFC successful sending the movie to the revising committee for caller information arsenic to whether the movie indispensable beryllium granted a U (universal), U/A (under big guidance), oregon A (adults only) certification.
The merchandise of the movie, primitively planned connected January 9, had got delayed by implicit a period owed to litigation. The shaper submitted the movie for certification nether the tatkal process connected December 18, 2025, and an examining committee comprising 5 members watched the movie connected December 19, 2025.
The shaper was informed connected December 22, 2025, that the examining committee had recommended a U/A 16+ certification if definite excisions were carried out. The accumulation location accepted the recommendation, carried retired each the suggested excisions, and submitted the edited movie earlier the CBFC connected December 24, 2025.
In the meantime, 1 of the members of the examining committee sent a ailment to the CBFC president successful Mumbai implicit the lack of an adept successful Army-related issues, contempt the movie having respective references to the equipped forces. Hence, the CBFC president enactment the process connected clasp connected December 29, 2025.
On January 5, 2026, the accumulation location was informed that the CBFC president had decided to notation the movie to a nine-member revising committee for reconsideration. The determination was uploaded connected the e-cinepramaan portal connected January 6, 2026, erstwhile the accumulation location rushed to the High Court with the writ petition.
Justice Asha heard the substance connected January 6, 2026, aft granting a luncheon question and directed the CBFC to taxable each the records connected January 7, 2026. After perusing the records and proceeding the counsel representing some sides, the justice reserved her orders connected that time and pronounced them connected January 9, 2026.
The azygous justice directed the CBFC to contented U/A 16+ certificate forthwith. However, the CBFC took her bid connected entreaty wrong a fewer hours and obtained an interim stay from the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan connected the aforesaid day.
The Supreme Court, too, refused to interfere with the interim order. Thereafter, the Division Bench took up the CBFC’s writ entreaty for last proceeding and acceptable speech the azygous judge’s bid connected January 27, 2026. The judges, however, remanded the writ petition to the azygous justice for a caller proceeding aft giving an accidental to the CBFC to record a antagonistic affidavit.
Pursuant to the Division Bench order, the accumulation steadfast decided not to prosecute the litigation anymore and alternatively agreed to the notation to the revising committee. To wide each ineligible hurdles, the shaper chose to retreat the writ petition and submitted a missive to the High Court Registry done its counsel.
