Chandigarh, July 18 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday dismissed a Mohali resident's petition seeking directions to the government to allow screening of the film "Satluj" on a OTT platform.

The PIL was taken up by the bench of acting chief justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and justice Rohit Kapoor after a brief hearing in which it questioned locus of the petitioner, ordered it dismissed as withdrawn. A detailed order is awaited.

The petition by one Shravan Singh, who claimed to be a subscriber of the platform and admirer of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, on whose life the film is based on, claimed there is no disclosed statutory, judicial or other lawful order prohibiting the movie's exhibition. Hence, the government...