MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday urged where the nation was skulled as alluding to "open threats" made to freeze the release of the film Padmavati and the declaration of a 5 crore reward to "kill" AND CUT THE NOSE OF Deepika Padukone.

"In which other nation do you see threats made to artistes and performers? It is upsetting to know a person makes a feature film and a number of others work determinedly towards it but are incapable to release the film for public viewing because of nonstop threats... A feature film cannot be released in this nation. What have we come to?" asked a bench of Justices S C Dharmadhikari and Bharati Dangre.

Even as pointing out that threats are being made openly and shown on television, the judges told people are taking pleasure in declaring rewards for killing artistes and performers. "Today somebody says, 'I will give a reward if you get a performer, artiste, actress killed'... Even chief ministers are saying they will not permit screening of the film in their states," asserted Justice Dharmadhikari, adding, "This is censorship of a different kind. If this is happening to people who are the rich then what about poor people?"

Bombay court’s statements were made while it rapped CBI and state CID for their letdown to mark out the absconding murderer of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare in spite of being given time to snap the cases. "The crime is committed in 2013 (Dhabolkar) and 2015 (Pansare) and you are still finding them (the killers)?" asked Justice Dharmadhikari. The court is hearing pleas by their families to monitor inquiry into the murders.