A post is being shared on social media claiming that a Muslim advocate named Adeel Ahmed had filed a petition in the Supreme Court of India seeking a ban on Gadar 2 film, which is said to be released on 26 January 2023. According to the post, the advocate had appealed to the Supreme Court to stop the screening of the Gadar 2 film, accusing the filmmakers of hurting the religious sentiments of the Muslims. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Muslim Advocate Adeel Ahmed recently filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a ban on Gadar-2 film.
Fact: As on date, no such petition seeking a ban on Gadar 2 film was filed in the Supreme Court of India. Supreme Court Advocate Adeel Ahmed released a video clarifying that he did not file any such petition against Gadar 2 film. The producers of the movie have not yet announced the official release date of the film. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When we searched to check whether any Muslim lawyer named Adeel Ahmed had filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a ban on Gadar 2 film, we could not find any such news on the internet. Though ‘Zee Studios’ confirmed the release of Gadar 2 in 2023, they did not announce the official release date of the film as yet.
The same message is being circulated on social media at least since August 2022. Supreme Court Advocate Adeel Ahmed released a video to India Today’s team clarifying these rumours linking his name on social media as fake. Adeel Ahmed through the video clarified that he did not file any such petition in the Supreme Court seeking a ban on Gadar 2 film. Further, Adeel Ahmed said he was a big fan of Gadar film and Sunny Deol.
In April 2022, a resident of Jarawan village in Uttar Pradesh wrote a letter to UP CM Yogi Adityanath, demanding to stop the Gadar 2 shooting at the Mahmudabad fort. The villager accused the filmmakers of hoisting the Pakistan flag in the fort by representing it as a Pakistan building. In December 2021, Yadunandan Sharma, the owner of a property used by Gadar 2 makers to shoot the film, accused the crew of damaging their property and appealed to producers to remove the footage they shot on their property. The complainants in both these incidents were not Muslims.
In 2001, during the release of the Gadar film, a petition was filed in the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking directions to stop the screening of the film. Accusing filmmakers of hurting Sikh religious sentiments, the petitioners appealed to the court to issue directions to remove objectionable scenes in the film. But lately, ahead of the Gadar 2 film release, no such petition was filed in the Supreme Court against the Gadar 2 release.
To sum it up, no Muslim advocate has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions to stop the screening of Gadar 2 film as yet.
