HC refuses to stay film on Sushant

The Delhi high court on Thursday refused to stay the June 11 release of the movie, Nyay: The Justice, purportedly based on the life of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, saying that “posthumous privacy right is not permissible”. The plea was filed by the late actor’s father, Krishna Kishore Singh, earlier this year. Dismissing the plea, the single-judge bench of justice Sanjeev Narula said “artistic freedom to create fictional works cannot be controlled”. The court said the argument that the family’s privacy is being violated was “unspecific and vague”.