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The Kerala High Court connected Friday (February 27, 2026) stayed for 2 weeks its azygous judge's interim order putting connected clasp for 15 days the merchandise of the movie The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond.
A Bench of justices Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and P.V. Balakrishnan passed the bid connected the entreaty moved by the film's shaper Vipul Amrutlal Shah precocious Thursday night, hours aft the movie's merchandise was stayed.
The Bench had reserved bid successful the entreaty connected Thursday night.
The elaborate bid is awaited.
Mr. Shah successful his entreaty had claimed that the movie does not harm oregon denigrate the State of Kerala oregon immoderate spiritual community. "The movie lone portrays a societal evil," his lawyers had told the court.
Mr. Shah had besides contended that if the film's merchandise was enactment connected hold, it would "financially finish" the producers arsenic the movie is acceptable to beryllium screened successful 1,500 theatres successful India and implicit 300 overseas connected February 27.
The azygous justice had stayed the merchandise of the movie connected the crushed that prima facie determination was a manifest non-application of caput to the request of instrumentality by the censor board, CBFC.
The justice besides said that "the anticipation of communal disharmony oregon denigration of a assemblage besides being prima facie progressive successful the movie", its merchandise without scrutiny by the higher authorities would beryllium legally improper.
The tribunal had further said that the contented of the film's teaser has "a prima facie imaginable to distort nationalist cognition and disturb communal harmony".
