Sheetal Cinema in soup for showing blue films

AHMEDABAD: Sheetal Cinema in Dariapur has been closed for over two months for showing blue films during its regular shows and failing to follow Gujarat High Court directive on this issue.
The district collector issued a show cause notice to this theatre in August when he learnt that it showed uncertified films, and sealed the cinema hall thereafter. Owners of Sheetal Cinema moved high court through the power of attorney holder and a division Bench headed by Chief Justice KS Radhakrishnan quashed the collector's order on the ground that the party was not given ample opportunity for hearing.
The division Bench directed Sheetal Cinema owners to file an undertaking before the collector that it would not show uncertified films in theatre and on this condition only, court allowed the theatre to run.Theatre owners complied with the court order. However, the collector did not get the seal opened and the owners broke it and started showing films.
A month later, district collectorate again dashed off a notice and closed down the theatre and cinema owners moved the high court second time. But this time around, Justice RR Tripathi pulled up the cinema owners for not giving a proper undertaking to collector. "When Chief Justice's court reposed confidence and granted relief saying that you can run the cinema on a condition of filing an undertaking that you will not exhibit uncertified films in the theatre, you ought to have responded to this confidence in a more responsible manner, rather than dropping an undated, unaffirmed cryptic writing on the table of the inward clerk," Justice Tripathi dismissed the petition with observation that cinema owner's statement cannot be considered an undertaking as directed by the chief justice.
Sheetal Cinema had to file another appeal before the chief justice seeking permission to run the theatre and assure the Bench that it would not show porn films again. Once again, chief justice asked the owners to file the same undertaking before district collector, before allowing the theatre to open.