The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking ban on the trailer of the upcoming movie The Accidental Prime Minister, which is based on a similarly titled the book by Sanjaya Baru, the former media advisor of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Justice Vibhu Bakhru remarked that the petition, by a Delhi-based fashion designer, was more in the nature of a public interest litigation (PIL). The judge said petitioner, Pooja Mahajan, could move the High Court again by filing her petition as a PIL. She further alleged that a wrong image of the country’s high office was being projected in the movie trailer. She said that voice, looks, dress of high profile politicians were copied simply for upsetting the entire democratic set up.

Source: The Hindu January 07, 2019 07:15 UTC