High Court rejects censor board's objection to flag trampling scene in film

The Bombay High Court overruled an objection raised by the Central Board of Film Certification regarding a scene in the film, where a flag is trampled upon and observed that "mere trampling of the flag cannot be said to be objectionable, particularly when, admittedly, it neither represents the flag of a nation nor that of any political party". The bench of Justice Manish Pitale was hearing a petition challenging the CBFC's suggested modifications to the film Inn Galiyon Mein, which included excisions, insertions, and deletions that the board argued were necessary to meet certification standards. "Considering the message of the film and the manner in which the aforesaid character is eventually defeated by rational forces, mere trampling of the flag cannot be said to be objectionable, particularly when, admittedly, it neither represents the flag of a nation nor that of any political party. Reacting to another CBFC objection regarding certain dialogues in the film, the bench said, "in the context of the entire film, particularly in the light of the sequence or scenes that lead up to the said dialogue, nothing objectionable is found and the CBFC is stretching its own guidelines a bit too much".