Kerala HC allows Catholic Congress to implead in petition filed by makers of film Haal

The Kerala High Court connected Friday allowed the Catholic Congress to implead itself successful a petition filed by the makers of the Malayalam movie Haal expressing interest astatine the Central Board of Film Certification’s (CBFC) revision committee seeking the removal of half-a-dozen scenes from the movie. According to the makers, the scenes are captious to the movie’s theme.

In its affidavit, the Catholic Congress said that the movie portrays the Thamarassery bishop arsenic a protagonist of ‘love jihad’. This is defamatory, hurts the spiritual sentiments of the Christian community, and could disturb bid successful society, it said. To a proposition by the organisation’s counsel that the justice ticker the movie to get astatine a conclusion, the tribunal said that it could ticker the movie and posted the lawsuit for proceeding connected Tuesday.