National law school Bengaluru cancels Umar Khalid documentary screening, 2 days after IIIT Hyderabad
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A student committee at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru has cancelled the screening of a documentary about jailed activist Umar Khalid on its campus, The Hindu reported on Sunday.
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Khalid has been in judicial custody for six years in connection with the conspiracy case related to the 2020 Delhi riots. The trial in the case is yet to begin.
The Law and Society Committee told The Hindu that it cancelled the event as the Central Board of Film Certification has said that the documentary, Prisoner No: 626710 is Present, has not been certified.
This came two days after the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, cancelled a screening of the same documentary following an objection from the censor board.
The film certification body had said on social media that public screening of a documentary that had not been certified by it “is a violation” of the 1952 Cinematograph Act “unless a specific exemption has been sought under the act”.
At the Bengaluru law school, the screening was initially scheduled for September 14. However, the organisers postponed it after the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad objected to the event.
The ABVP is the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The ABVP’s Bengaluru unit had also written to Union ministers seeking a permanent cancellation of the...