The Supreme Court today directed the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to respond to a plea against 'verbal instructions' by the authorities there not to release a movie in some districts of the two states.

The movie, 'Muzaffarnagar the Burning Love', is a love story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl and set in backdrop of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh. The film has already been released across the country barring some districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand -- Muzzaffarnagar, Meerut, Saharanpur, Shamli, Baghpat, Ghaziabad and, Haridwar and Bijnor.