The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), better known as the Censor Board, has stopped the release in India of Punjabi film The Mastermind: Jinda Sukha saying it had received “complaints from various sections of society”. The global release of the film was scheduled for September 11.

The film takes its title from Khalistan militants Harjinder Singh Jinda and Sukhdev Singh Sukha, the assassins of General A S Vaidya who was Army chief at the time of Operation Blue Star in Amritsar in 1984.