Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder finally released today (August 8) after a protracted legal battle for its clearance. The I & B ministry on August 6 rejected all the revision petitions filed against the film based on the real-life murder of a tailor in Rajasthan.
The Delhi high court on August 7 refused to stay the film’s release. A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the order while dismissing a plea seeking a stay on the film’s release.
While permitting the release of the film, the court said that exhibition of the film would not cause any harm to the accused murderer in real life as “trial will be conducted by the judge uninfluenced as a trained judge”.
Mohd. Javed, an accused in the murder case, told the court that if the film was allowed to be released, it would prejudice the trial. The petition of Mohd. Javed was opposed by the counsel for the government, who said that the authorities had applied their mind while clearing the film for release.