Why has Satluj movie banned just two days after its release in India?

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Chandigarh, Indian Punjab: In the so-called democratic India, the movie Satluj that is also known as “Punjab 95” was banned just in two days after release that took three years to clear from Indian Censor Board that demanded 127 censor cuts and then allowed the film to be released and this film took three years to go through censor process.

Satluj (originally titled Punjab ’95) is based on the true story of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, who investigated state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings and secret cremations of thousands of Sikhs in Punjab during 1984-95. His work indicated that there could have been over 25,000 Sikhs illegally killed and cremated by the state during 1984-95 only in Indian Punjab. To date, families of those who “disappeared” during the insurgency are awaiting confirmation of the fate of their missing loved ones.
Since movie exposed Sikh purge in Indian Punjab the censor board demanded 127 cuts at one point. The makers tried to release the movie outside India, but that move was also blocked by Indian government. They tried to give the movie a premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, but diplomatic pressure blocked it again. Finally, after so many hurdles, the movie was released as a direct OTT release on ZEE5, and on July 5th ZEE5 downed the movie from streaming platform.
This movie is based on a true story of Jaswant Singh Khalra. The first half of film documents the events that led Jaswant Singh Khalra, to do this activism for his people.
For Sikhs, Satluj aka Punjab ’95 is not a movie but an attempt to show atrociousness faced by Sikhs during 1984-95. Even though it is a story set in a time when a different regime was in power, the questions it raises will disturb those who rule India under the façade of democracy.

Jaswant Singh Khalra (1952–1995) was an Indian Sikh human rights activist who indicated that not only 25,000 innocent civilians Sikhs were killed in Indian Punjab rather about 2,000 police officers who refused to cooperate to kill Sikhs were also killed by the state intelligence agencies.
Khalra, a banker by profession, was last seen in September 1995. Six Punjab police officials were later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for Khalra’s abduction and murder.
Jaswant Singh Khalra was the director of a bank in the city of Amritsar in Punjab during the militancy period in Punjab. Following Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots, the police were empowered to detain suspects for any reason, ostensibly as suspected terrorists. The police were accused of killing unarmed suspects in staged shootouts and burning thousands of dead bodies to cover up the murders.
Khalra was investigating four major cases at one time and continued to collect evidence and witnesses. These cases included the custodial killing of Behla, the human-shield case concerning the death of seven civilians, the cremation of 25,000 unidentified bodies in Punjab, and that police had killed about 2,000 police officers not collaborating in counter-terror operations. The Central Bureau of Investigation, a Union Government agency, concluded that police had unlawfully cremated 2,097 people in Tarn Taran district alone.
While searching for some colleagues who went missing, Khalra discovered files from the municipal corporation of Amritsar which contained the names, ages, and addresses of those who had been killed and later burned by the police. Further research revealed cases in 3 other districts in Punjab, increasing the list by thousands. The National Human Rights Commission released a list of some of the identified bodies that were cremated by the police in the Police Districts of Amritsar, Majitha, and Tarn Taran between June 1984 and December 1994. The Supreme Court of India and the National Human Rights Commission of India have certified the validity of this data.
Khalra belonged to a family of activists and his grandfather, Harnam Singh was also one of 376 passengers of the ship, Komagata Maru which famously sailed from British Hong Kong, via Shanghai, China, and Yokohama, Japan, to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, British India. Of them, 24 were admitted to Canada, but the other 352 passengers were not allowed to disembark in Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India. Harnam Singh, among others, was arrested upon their arrival and was tried in the Lahore conspiracy case against the British Empire and was later imprisoned in Lahore jail.