Guarded by muscled bouncers and an armed police picket, IFFI's Indian Panorama panel jury on Monday claimed to have decided the fate of Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's film "S Durga", but the panel's acting head Rahul Rawail said that the jury's decision would be formally conveyed by the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry to the Kerala High Court. Reacting to the development, Sasidharan said that the prolonged delay amounted to mockery of the judicial orders and that the aim of the IFFI organisers was to ensure that the film was not screened at the festival, which ends on Tuesday.

S Durga