Poor Jolly-LLB 2, albeit getting lots of free but priceless publicity from spending time in court defending cases by lawyers, of all people, will now have to make four cuts in order to satisfy a bench of the Bombay high court.

Bollywood film “Udta Punjab” will hit the theatres on Friday after the Supreme Court today refused to block a Bombay high court order allowing its release while the Punjab and Haryana high court dismissed petitions seeking a stay on it.

RM Partners won a John Doe order in the Bombay high court today, directing several websites to take down the downloadable copy of the yet unreleased Hindi film Udta Punjab, and temporarily restraining cable operators from telecasting the film.

The Bombay high court on Monday overruled the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) recommended 13 cuts for Bollywood film “Udta Punjab” and cleared the film for release with one cut and three disclaimers by the filmmakers here.

The censor board on Friday told the Bombay high court that some of the scenes recommended for deletion in the Hindi movie “Udta Punjab” were “very vulgar”.

Naik Naik & Company managing partner Ameet Naik with senior advocate Ravi Kadam acted for Phantom Films in their Bombay high court appeal against the censor board’s decision to ban the film Udta Punjab.

The Caravan investigates Indian broadcast censorship via the government’s low-key Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC), which presides over the suitability of jokes in The Simpsons for kids, criticism of Narendra Modi and other politicians, and the chilling effect on explicit language on channe...

The Supreme Court’s Women Lawyers Association (WLA) has asked the Supreme Court to ban porn websites from the internet, to implement porn victim protection measures and to direct law enforcement agencies for stricter prevention of porn distribution, reported Live Law . The WLA through its secretary ...

Is this the end of the block? Possibly not despite reports of a government U-turn…

“I reject with contempt the charge that it is a Talibani government, as being said by some of the critics. Our government supports free media,” said telecoms minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, saying that ISPs were ordered today to unblock websites that did not contain pornography that were accidentally included in the secret list of 857 pornographic sites to be blocked in India online.

Indian internet service providers (ISPs) received a notice from the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) two days ago (31 July), ordering the blocking of 857 websites, many of which appeared to host pornography, according to an authoritative source at an ISP.

Several pornography web sites are currently inaccessible in India on several internet service providers (ISPs).

The Delhi high court on Monday asked the censor board to issue a certificate for public screening to documentary film “Textures of Loss” which is based on the violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Justice Rajiv Shakdher directed the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to issue a certificate of scree...

“New Delhi authorities on Wednesday asked India’s federal information technology ministry to block the taxi-hailing apps of US -based Uber and its local rival Ola in the city in a bid to enforce a ban on the companies’ services,” reported Reuters . However, QZ reported last year that blocking of ser...

The Caravan magazine’s website has published an internal Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) memo to its regional offices, with a list of words that should be banned from movies and other media it is responsible for censoring.

The Delhi high court Tuesday asked the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) to respond on a plea challenging the refusal to grant certificate to the film “En Dino Muzaffarnagar”, on the grounds that the film has the potential of creating com...

The Delhi High Court on 23 June blocked 472 websites, but later updated its John Doe order to only block 219 websites, for alleged copyright violation, reported Medianama . The order, which came on the complaint of FIFA 2014 broadcasting rights owner Multi Screen Media, was only implemented in July....

The Bombay high court has declined granting interim relief to movie director and producer Anurag Kashyap over a challenge of the government’s rule to superimpose a “smoking is injurious to health” warning on movies whenever a cigarette is shown on screen. The Censor Board had not given one of Kashya...

Dalit Scholar Kamal Bharti was arrested after making allegedly derogatory remarks against Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan in a Facebook post about suspended bureaucrat Durga Shakti Nagpal, reported the PTI . Bharti had posted that Nagpal was arrested for ordering the demolition of a mosque wall, bu...

A unified regulator – the Unified Financial Agency (UFA) - for markets, insurance, commodities, pensions, and eventually banking, also subsuming the SEBI, SAT, IRDA, PFRDA, and FMC and merging the RBI with it, was proposed on Friday [ BS ] US Supreme Court may partially strike down law denying legal...