{"id":30510,"date":"2013-10-09T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=30510"},"modified":"2013-10-09T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T11:59:18","slug":"hc-dismisses-plea-seeking-ban-movie-ram-leela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-dismisses-plea-seeking-ban-movie-ram-leela","title":{"rendered":"HC dismisses plea seeking ban on movie &#8216;Ram-Leela&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Wednesday dismissed a PIL seeking a ban on the release of Bollywood movie &#8220;Ram-Leela&#8221;, starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench of Chief Justice N.V. 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A bench of Justice A K Chawla upheld the Delhi Cantonment Board's decision granting permission to Shree Raghunandan Leela Samiti of Janakpuri to organise\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Ram-Leela.jpg?fit=780%2C514&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Ram-Leela.jpg?fit=780%2C514&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Ram-Leela.jpg?fit=780%2C514&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Ram-Leela.jpg?fit=780%2C514&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":51398,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/pil-filed-hc-seeking-action-karni-sena","url_meta":{"origin":30510,"position":3},"title":"PIL filed in HC seeking action against Karni Sena","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"January 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Seeking action against Karni Sena activists for \"disturbing peace\" in the wake of the release of \"Padmaavat\",\u00a0\u00a0a PIL was filed itoday\u00a0 in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. 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