Top court refuses to grant relief to Vijay’s film

IN a major setback to the makers of the Tamil film ‘Jana Nayagan’, produced by KVN Production, the Supreme Court on Thursday in its order dismissed its plea for a censor certificate, and it asked them to go back to the Madras High Court division bench for relief on January 20.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY

While rejecting the plea, a two-judge bench of Justices Di-pankar Datta and Augustine George Masih questioned the pace at which the case was dealt with by the Madras HC. “What a blistering pace! Please wait for the High Court’s final order. When the matter is fixed before the division bench, you don’t challenge that order. Please go back to the division bench,” the apex court said and asked the petitioner to raise the arguments before them. KVN Productions LLP had challenged an interim order of the Madras High Court that stayed a single-judge direction