Hours after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting summoned the content head of Netflix India amid the ongoing controversy around `IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack` web series, it is now reported that a PIL has been filed in Delhi High Court seeking a ban on the Anubhav Sinha directorial. According to Bar and Bench, the plea by Surjit Singh Yadav says the series "distorted the actual identities" of terrorists by giving them Hindu names.

Hindu names used for terrorists in ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ 

Those who have pulled up Anubhav Sinha for the names of hijackers as ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’ (after Lord Shiva) claim that the filmmaker is trying to defame Hinduism. However, fact-checkers have pointed out that as per the Ministry of External Affairs website, these were the code names used according to accounts shared by passengers.