I am deeply perturbed by the recent reaction of diljitdosanjh, who has portrayed Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalra in Punjab ’95. When even an artist known to consciously stay away from political commentary feels compelled to speak out, it reflects the depth of pain within the Sikh community over the continued blocking of the film’s release. I urge Shri prasoonjoshi, Chairman of the CBFC, to recognise that this is not a matter of technical delay - withholding this film is being perceived as a continuation of the very suppression Sikhs endured under the Congress governments of the 1980s and 1990s. The community still carries the trauma of state excesses from that era - unlawful disappearances, custodial killings, and mass illegal cremations — all of which Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalra courageously exposed before being abducted and murdered for speaking the truth. By preventing the release of Punjab ’95, the CBFC is unintentionally reinforcing the silence once imposed by that same apparatus and inflicting fresh emotional hurt on a community that has never received closure for those crimes. Based on my conversation with the film’s director, Honey Trehan, the film draws entirely from judicial records and documented court proceedings, including CBI findings. This is not fictitious cinema - it is verified history. Sardar Khalra is not merely a Sikh figure; he is a global human-rights icon. His name is taught in international institutions, and public spaces abroad honour his legacy. Yet in the very nation whose Constitution he defended with his life, his story remains stalled from reaching its own people. In recent years, films such as The Kashmir Files, The Kerala Story and The Sabarmati Report were allowed to be released without obstruction. If narrative freedom is respected for those accounts, then a film rooted in judicial evidence cannot be treated differently. As India marks 50 years since the Emergency - a period our democracy remembers for state censorship and the suppression of truth - it is imperative that we do not allow any space for comparisons that undermine our institutional credibility. The continued withholding of Punjab ’95 risks what feels like a second disappearance of Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalra - this time not from physical existence, but from our collective constitutional memory as a nation. As on 2nd Nov. we approach 30 years since his abduction, I appeal to the Chairman of CBFC to uphold the constitutional right of citizens to access truth, and permit the release of Punjab ’95 - uncut, unaltered, and unafraid.