‘Netflix can’t stream ‘A Big Little Murder’ until…’, rules Delhi HC

A Big Little Murder, a 2019 documentary apparently on the death of a boy in a school, cannot be streamed by Netflix and any other online streaming platform unless all scenes that explicitly contain references to the specific school are deleted, the Delhi high court said on Friday. The documentary, which attempts to uncover the truth behind the “brutal 2017 murder of a young Indian schoolboy”, was released on Netflix on August 6, 2021. The two-episode show, consisting of interviews, is “controversial, provocative, investigative”, the description on Netflix says.

The school, through its trust, moved the Delhi high court against the streaming of the documentary, saying it uses the name of the school, shows visuals of the school, which was done in complete violation of the order passed by a local court in 2018.