India, Jan. 27 -- The Madras high court on Tuesday set aside the January 9 single-bench order directing the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to grant actor-politician Vijay's starrer Tamil film Jana Nayagan UA16+ certification, further delaying its theatrical release.

A bench of Chief Justice MM Shrivastava and Justice Arul Murugan said the single bench should, at the very least, have given the CBFC an opportunity and enough time to "file a counter-affidavit". It ordered the single bench to hear the matter afresh.

KVN Productions, which has produced the film, maintained the CBFC chairperson acted without jurisdiction in reopening the certification process after the Examining Committee had cleared the film, subject to cuts and ...