Supreme Court nod for release of Black Friday

The SC on Friday paved way for the release of Black Friday, a film based on the 1993 Mumbai blasts, but directed that it will have to wait till the TADA court completed conviction or acquittal — as the case may be—of the 123 accused in the bomb blasts case. The order came from a Bench of Justices B P Singh and Altamas Kabir. The storyline of the movie is based on a book by The Indian Express staffer S Hussein Zaidi and deals with the sequence of events a few days prior to the blast till the police cracked the case. The HC had stayed release of the film last year on a plea by one of the accused in the case, Tiger Memon aide Mustaq Moosa Tarani. He had contended that the movie would influence the public mind as it was based on the probe conducted by the police. However, after the Tada court convicted Tarani on September 27, the producers of the film approached the SC.