Show Us Sex Determination Scene Or We Won’t Permit It: Delhi HC On ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’

Mumbai: Delhi High Court asked the producers of the upcoming Ranveer Singh starrer Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ to show a scene in the movie depicting prenatal sex determination.

Ranveer Singh has played the lead role in the film with Shalini Pandey opposite him. The film also stars Boman Irani and Ratna Pathak Shah in important roles.

On Monday, the court heard a plea seeking the removal of the scene from the film and asked producer Yash Raj Films to show the relevant part. He also warned that he would not allow the scene until he had seen the reference himself.

A Bar and Bench report quoted a bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi as saying, “You take instructions. You come back. We will have to see or we will have to stay. Unless we see for ourselves, we will not permit this. We will take it up after lunch.”

The judges said that the film’s trailer does not highlight the fact that sex determination is illegal.

He said, “You see there is nothing to carry the woman in secret or it is not legal or the actors know (in the scene) that it is a crime. What is coming out is that Any pregnant woman can be taken to the centre with a sonogram machine and this can be done regularly.”

It added, “Don’t trivialise it to show that anybody can walk into any clinic and get it done. The dramatisation should be that they are aware (that it is illegal) but it is still being done.” Navin Chawla was also on the bench that watched the trailer of Jayeshbhai Jordaar before the statement.

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