A Division Bench of the Madras High Court, on Tuesday (January 20, 2026), reserved its orders on a writ appeal filed by Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) against a single judge’s order directing it to issue U/A 16+ certificate for actor Vijay’s most-anticipated last movie Jana Nayagan.
The first Bench comprising Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan deferred their verdict after hearing the arguments advanced by Additional Solicitor General AR.L. Sundaresan for the CBFC and senior counsel Satish Parasaran, assisted by Vijayan Subramanian, for KVN Productions LLP.
The Bench completed hearing the marathon arguments on the writ appeal on Tuesday since the Supreme Court, while refusing to interfere with the interim stay granted to the single judge’s order by the Bench on January 9, had requested it to make an endeavour to take an early decision on the appeal.
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