India, Jan. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere with a Madras High Court order staying a single judge's direction to grant a "UA 16+" certificate to the Vijay-starrer Tamil film Jana Nayagan, observing that the matter was actively pending before a division bench of the high court.

A bench of justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih noted that since the division bench of the Madras High Court had already seized of the dispute and listed it for hearing on January 20, there was no occasion for the apex court to step in at this stage. The bench said the film's producers were at liberty to raise all their legal contentions before the high court.

At the same time, the Supreme Court urged the high court to make an endeavour to...