India, Aug. 26 -- The Bombay high court on Monday ordered the release of Ajey: The Untold Story of a Yogi, a biopic on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, after ruling that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) had wrongly withheld clearance on grounds of obscenity.

A division bench of justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale watched the film in court before pronouncing their order. "There is no obscenity. Absolutely nothing. Even considering today's OTT standards, this is a very mild version," the judges said.

The film, produced by Samrat Cinematics and starring Anant Joshi as Adityanath, is based on Shantanu Gupta's book The Monk Who Became Chief Minister. The film derives its title from the UP CM's birth name ...