Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued summons to Red Chillies Entertainment over Ba**ds of Bollywood against a defamation plea filed by Former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede.
HC has asked Red Chillies Entertainment and others to file a reply to the plea within 7 days. The court has also asked the petitioner to supply a copy of the petition to all defendants.
The Ba**ds of Bollywood matter has been listed on October 30 for a hearing.
Wankhede dragged Netflix and Shah Rukh Khan’s production house to Delhi HC, claiming that the show paints him in a false, malicious light, twisting the 2021 drugs-on-cruise case to damage his reputation. He alleged that the series not only targets him personally but also “erodes public confidence” in anti-drug enforcement agencies by misrepresenting events tied to Aryan Khan’s arrest and subsequent release. He has named Red Chillies, Netflix, and others as respondents in his defamation suit.
The former NCB officer insists the timing of the release is especially problematic, since proceedings involving him and Aryan Khan are still pending before the Bombay High Court and the NDPS Special Court in Mumbai.
Also read: Sameer Wankhede takes Aryan Khan’s series The Bads of Bollywood to court over defamation, seeks damages of Rs 2 crore
His petition further points to a controversial sequence in which a character makes an obscene gesture after recital of “Satyamev Jayate.” Wankhede’s legal team argues that this act violates the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, attracting penal consequences for its offensive and insensitive portrayal.
HC has asked Red Chillies Entertainment and others to file a reply to the plea within 7 days. The court has also asked the petitioner to supply a copy of the petition to all defendants.
The Ba**ds of Bollywood matter has been listed on October 30 for a hearing.
Wankhede dragged Netflix and Shah Rukh Khan’s production house to Delhi HC, claiming that the show paints him in a false, malicious light, twisting the 2021 drugs-on-cruise case to damage his reputation. He alleged that the series not only targets him personally but also “erodes public confidence” in anti-drug enforcement agencies by misrepresenting events tied to Aryan Khan’s arrest and subsequent release. He has named Red Chillies, Netflix, and others as respondents in his defamation suit.
The former NCB officer insists the timing of the release is especially problematic, since proceedings involving him and Aryan Khan are still pending before the Bombay High Court and the NDPS Special Court in Mumbai.
Also read: Sameer Wankhede takes Aryan Khan’s series The Bads of Bollywood to court over defamation, seeks damages of Rs 2 crore
His petition further points to a controversial sequence in which a character makes an obscene gesture after recital of “Satyamev Jayate.” Wankhede’s legal team argues that this act violates the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, attracting penal consequences for its offensive and insensitive portrayal.
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