HC dismisses PIL challenging ban on ‘MSG: The Messenger’

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court declined to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the ban imposed by the Punjab government on screening of “MSG: The Messenger,” a film featuring Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. The petition was filed by Gurpreet Singh of Mansa, challenging the ban terming it as “arbitrary and illegal”. The high court division bench did not accept the petition as PIL and it was “dismissed as withdrawn”, with the observation that if the makers of the film wanted to challenge the ban imposed by the state government, they could do so before the competent authority.