Overview

• A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela Gokhale set aside the CBFC’s refusal after an in-court screening of Ajey: The Untold Story of a Yogi.
• The judges rejected claims of obscenity or defamation, stating that even the scenes flagged by the board required no edits.
• Filmmakers Samrat Cinematics said the board first raised 29 objections that were later reduced, including an insistence on a no‑objection certificate from the UP Chief Minister’s office that their filings argued is not required by law.
• The court accepted a revised three-line disclaimer clarifying the film is a creative work of fiction inspired by real events.
• The film draws from Shantanu Gupta’s publicly available biography The Monk Who Became Chief Minister, with the bench noting the portrayal of Yogi Adityanath is largely positive as the path opens for a new release date.