New Delhi, July 11 -- The Delhi high court on Thursday stayed the release of the film Udaipur Files based on the 2022 murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal. The film, produced by Amit Jani, was scheduled for release on Friday. A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Anish Dayal asked the petitioner, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani, to approach the Centre in two days to seek cancellation of the film's CBFC (Centre and Central Board of Film Certification) certificate, clarifying that the stay will be in effect until the government's decision on the interim plea. The judges directed the Centre to also take a call on the cancellation application within 7 days. To be sure, section 6 of the Cinematograph Act, 1952 empowers the Centre to declare a film uncertified and pass certain interim measures such as suspension of the certificate upon an application by the aggrieved person. "Having regards to the facts and circumstances of the case and taking into consideration the scheme of the act and the processes to be gone into by the Board, while considering prayer for grant of certificate, we are of the opinion that the petitioner ought to approach the Centre by invoking section 6. We may also note that the Centre has been empowered to not only pass final orders but also provide interim orders. Accordingly, we permit the petitioner to approach the Centre by invoking section 6 within 2 days from today," the court said in its order. It added, "In case, the petitioner approaches the Centre he may also make a prayer for grant of interim measures as contemplated in section 6(c) of the act. Once the petitioner approaches the Centre by filing the revision petition, the same shall be considered and decided by the Centre within a period of a week, after giving an opportunity to the producer." The court passed the order while dealing with pleas filed by three individuals, including Madani, seeking to stall the movie's release and quash its CBFC certificate. On Wednesday, the court had asked the producer to arrange a special screening of the movie for the petitioners, after the CBFC had said that certain offending portions of the movie had been removed....