The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Tamil Nadu government to give an opportunity of hearing to producer-director Sohan Roy, who challenged the state's decision to ban the screening of his film Dam 999.
A bench of judges A.K. Ganguly and J.S. Khehar said the State Home Secretary shall give the hearing to Roy and his counsel at Chennai on December 12 and thereafter pass a "reasoned" order on the issue by December 16.
The apex court told that if the filmmaker was not satisfied with the order of the Home Secretary, he was at liberty to seek alternative legal remedy.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu's Additional Advocate General Gurukrishna Kumar and counsel Srikala told the bench that Roy was earlier given an opportunity to be heard but he had declined the same on the ground that his petition was pending in the apex court.
