(Prayer : Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of certiorarified mandamus calling for the records of the second respondent pertaining to the order dated 1.6.2006 bearing Rc.No.E-2(1)/54427/20006 suspending the exhibition of the film "The Da Vinci Code", quash the same and consequently direct the respondents to permit exhibition of the film "The Da Vinci Code" in theatres in Tamil Nadu.)

We may search in vain, for a more haunting tragic hero than Satan in Milton's "Paradise Lost", who rails at God,

"What though the field be lost?

All is not lost, the unconquerable will,

And study of revenge, immortal hate,

And courage never to submit or yield

And what is else not to be overcome?"

Milton's voice was not stifled or choked for making Satan a heroic figure, no, not even for two months. In fact, in "Areopagitica", the blind poet champions free speech :

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties..........

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to lay upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Fals