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The Kerala High Court connected Thursday (March 5, 2026) refused to entertain a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) that was filed earlier this week seeking removal of ‘Kerala’ from the rubric of the Hindi movie The Kerala Story 2-Goes Beyond.
A Bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V.M. orally observed that it would beryllium improper for the tribunal to entertain the plea, since a writ petition and an entreaty regarding the substance were already pending earlier the court. Moreover, a Division Bench had passed an bid permitting the movie’s release, it said, adding that the tribunal could not determine connected an bid already passed by a coordinate Bench.
Stating that 1 could criticise a judgment, the tribunal warned the petitioner against attempting to formed aspersions connected the tribunal arsenic an institution. Following this, the petitioners offered an unconditional apology for including the submissions successful the PIL.
The petitioners, a retired societal subject teacher and a pistillate lawyer, had besides mentioned successful their plea that the filmmakers had challenged earlier a Division Bench of the tribunal a caller Single Bench bid that had issued an interim enactment connected the film’s release, allegedly earlier the interim enactment bid was uploaded. In the PIL filed connected Tuesday, they alleged that isolated from showing Kerala successful a atrocious airy by portraying it arsenic a hub of forced conversions, the movie could make hatred towards members of the Muslim assemblage successful the State.
The petitioners further sought a absorption to the Centre and the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to licence screening of the movie with a disclaimer that it was based connected a purely fictional theme. They besides sought a absorption to the Centre and the CBFC to framework guidelines to guarantee that titles and tag lines of films did not denigrate immoderate State, region, caste oregon religion.
