The Kerala High Court on Tuesday refused to stay the screening of the controversial movie The Kerala Story.
A Division Bench of Justices N. Nagaresh and C.P. Muhammad Nias posted the case for May 5. A writ petition sought to stall the screening of the movie till factually incorrect contents were removed from it.
Though the movie was claimed to have been inspired from true events, the statements in its teaser and trailer were far removed from the truth, V.R. Anoop, petitioner, contended. The movie is claimed to be based on events that occurred in Kerala where Hindu and Christian girls were deliberately trapped in ‘love jihad’ and converted into Islam by Islamic groups. The movie stated that these girls were later trafficked for missions to Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The teaser of the movie incorrectly stated that 32,000 women were converted, radicalised, and deployed in terror missions, according to the petitioner.
