The petitioners have prayed that the respondents may be directed, to withhold the release of the movie till it is reviewed, scrutinized and censored by the appropriate authorities.
Devastated over the loss of five of his friends, who were gunned down in Kulgam district of the Union Territory, Sarkar said on Thursday that he was yet to come to terms with the ghastly incident.
Violent clashes took place outside the Indian High Commission when thousands of people converged there for pre-planned protests and counter-demonstrations on Thursday.
The Congress' top decision making body CWC, which met twice during the day, also passed a resolution on Jammu and Kashmir, expressing serious concern over the situation there, including reports of a clampdown and news blackout.
The petition seeks a direction for the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir administration to immediately relax all restrictions on freedom of movement of journalists and media personnel in Kashmir and some districts of Jammu.
Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa presided over the Corps Commanders Conference, which is the highest decision-making forum of the army, held at General Headquarters in Islamabad on a single point agenda of Kashmir.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called those who targeted Kashmiris in Lucknow recently 'crazed people' and asked state governments to take strict action if there is any attack on Kashmiris.
The local police, who earlier dubbed it as an incident of road rage, registered a case against the two suspected assailants on Friday evening and arrested one of them.
