The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed Shah Bano's daughter's plea against release of Haq movie, observing that as per the disclaimer the film is fictional, adaptation of a book 'Bano: Bharat Ki Beti' and inspired by the 1985 landmark Supreme Court judgment hence some amount of leeway is permissible.

The court said that the same does not amount to false portrayal of the petitioner's mother and the movie does not claim to be a true story of any person.

The court noted that the film is not claimed to be based "purely upon" the Supreme Court's judgment in Ahmad Khan v. Shah Bano Begum (1985) and if it contains any personal details used for dramatization then the same was not wrong.

Justice Pranay Verma in his order observed:

" Since the disclaimer itself states that the same is d

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