The counsel for IRS officer Sameer Wankhede, in a defamation swimsuit regarding Aryan Khan’s debut internet sequence The Ba***ds of Bollywood, informed the Delhi Excessive Court docket on Monday that the makers of the online sequence have been hiding behind a disclaimer, and their defence of satire was not absolute.
Wankhede has filed a defamation swimsuit in opposition to Pink Chillies and Netflix for allegedly maligning his popularity of their sequence, looking for ₹2 crore in damages, which he needs to be donated to the Tata Memorial Most cancers Hospital for most cancers sufferers.
Sameer Wankhede’s counsel argues internet sequence is ‘sly’
Through the proceedings on Monday, Wankhede’s counsel mentioned that the makers of the online sequence have been hiding behind a disclaimer and had taken a “sly strategy.” “Disclaimer is of no consequence. The proof of pudding is how individuals eat it,” the advocate mentioned.
“The defence of satire is just not absolute. You’ve gotten taken potshots at me in my skilled capability,” he added. The counsel acknowledged that the spoof and innuendos directed on the officer have been made with malice and a vendetta. “That is vendetta passing off as fiction,” Wankhede’s counsel mentioned.
The court docket then posed questions on inventive freedom to the manufacturing home. The arguments by Pink Chillies are scheduled to begin on November 17.
Sameer Wankhede’s plea in opposition to makers of The Ba***ds of Bollywood
In interim aid, Wankhede has sought the elimination of the alleged defamatory content material from a number of web sites. His plea states that the sequence disseminates a deceptive and adverse portrayal of anti-drug enforcement companies, eroding public confidence in legislation enforcement establishments.
Wankhede mentioned the sequence has been intentionally conceptualised and executed with the intent to malign his popularity in a colourable and prejudicial method, particularly when the case involving the officer and Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan is pending and sub judice earlier than the Bombay Excessive Court docket and the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Particular Court docket in Mumbai.
On October 8, the excessive court docket issued notices and summons to the defendants, together with Pink Chillies Leisure Non-public Restricted, Netflix, X Corp (previously Twitter), Google LLC, Meta Platforms, RPSG Life-style Media Non-public Restricted, and John Doe, within the defamation swimsuit, and requested them to file their replies inside seven days.
Within the final listening to, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav granted time to Wankhede, Shah Rukh Khan-owned Pink Chillies Leisure, and OTT platform Netflix to file their written submissions.