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The Bombay High Court has put up the Public Interest Litigation filed by one Intezar Hussain Sayed seeking stay of release of the film The Kashmir Files tomorrow at 4 PM. The film is known to depict the atrocities on Kashmiri Pandits & is directed by Vivek Agnihotri.

The film is set for release on March 11, 2022.

A bench comprising of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Vinay Gajanan Joshi asked the counsel when the film was set to release today & said that it will be heard tomorrow at 4 PM. Court has not issued notice in the plea.

Sayed in his plea claimed that scenes from film's trailer shows that the movie is based around the killing of Kashmiri Pandits by Muslims and it is clearly evident that the whole movie will also be portraying a "targeted one-sided view of the incident" which hurts the Muslim community & ignite "emotions and inflame members of the Hindu Community".

The petitioner has further submitted that the release of the film may trigger violence and immeasurable destruction in all active parts of India.

It is further contended that the movie is a work of "propaganda", depicting "one-sided inflammatory incendiary work" and promotes hatred against the Muslims, thus it falls under reasonable restrictions to Article 19(2) of the Constitution.

In this context, Sayed has sought directions from the court to pull down/delete the said trailer from Youtube and other social media platforms and stay the release of the film.

Case Title: Intezar Hussain Sayed v. Zee Studios and Ors