[2] B. Saroja Devi, an yesteryear's actress, headed the feature film Jury, which had eleven other members.
A documentary maker and Indian television personality Siddharth Kak headed the six-member non-feature film Jury.
The Jury for best writing on cinema was headed by veteran film critic Khalid Mohamed.
Noted film-makers Anand Patwardhan, Gaurav Jani and Simantini Dhuru had filed a petition in the Bombay High Court asking for exemptions for their films from obtaining censor board certification.
In spite of this judgment, juries went ahead with the existing rule and left out uncensored non-feature films.
On this judgment, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting decided to appeal in the Supreme Court of India against this verdict.
She had challenged the decision to give the awards to Black for Best Film in Hindi and Best Actor, Parineeta for Best Debut Director, saying it is not an original work and is inspired with the movies released earlier on the same theme.
Parzania winning the Best Director for Rahul Dholakia and Sarika for Best Actress was accused to mock the Indian democratic system.
However, the petition was dismissed by the court saying the petitioner had no case when the other members of the Jury had no objection to the selection of the films for the awards.
It said that "film mocks the Indian democratic system and ends with just forming a human rights commission for a probe into the riots.