LHC Allows Screening Of Film 'Maalik'
Umer Jamshaid Published September 21, 2016 | 02:20 PM
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News -21st Sept,2016) : The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday allowed screening of film "Maalik" after declaring the ban on the film illegal. Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza had reserved the verdict on the petitions,filed by opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed and Munir Ahmad, after hearing arguments of the parties on June 2 and it was announced today in open court.
The petitioners' counsel Shiraz Zaka and Muhammad Azhar Siddique in their arguments submitted that the Information Ministry had issued a notification, slapping a ban on exhibition of the film "Maalik".
They said that the ban was in violation of fundamental right of freedom of expression. They said that after the eighteenth amendment the censorship powers had been delegated to provinces and the Federal government could not impose a ban.
Referring to the judgements of Indian courts they pleaded with the court to set aside the ban. However,a deputy attorney general opposed the request and submitted that the film portrays politicians and others in a despicable and contemptuous manner.
He contended that the federal government was empowered to impose the ban and the film was banned on receiving complaints from civil society. To which,petitioners' counsel argued that the federal censor board accorded approval by granting it a universal certificate,"Once permission is granted or legal rights are created,then such vested rights cannot be withdrawn or set aside," he added.
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