The apex court's vacation bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice L. Nageswara Rao said: "We are not going into the merits of the matter in the absence of the high court judgement."
However, the court permitted the Punjab-based NGO Human Rights Awareness Association, which sought the Supreme Court's intervention to block the movie's release, to approach the apex court at a later stage.
The high court on June 13 allowed the release of "Udta Punjab", which had faced problems with the censors, with one cut and more disclaimers.