India, July 25 -- The Supreme Court on Friday refused to take a call on allowing the release of the movie Udaipur Files, a controversial film based on the 2022 murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan, and requested the Delhi high court to take up the matter on Monday.

"The high court is requested to take up the said petitions on Monday," a bench of justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said, underlining that it hadn't passed any orders on the merits of the petitions before it. "It is clarified that this court has not expressed any opinion on merits and the high court is at liberty to pass appropriate orders in accordance with law," the bench said.

The court passed the order on separate petitions filed by the movie producer Jani Fir...