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Ex NCB officer Sameer Wankhede has sued Aryan Khan and Shah Rukh Khan for allegedly defaming and parodying him in Aryan’s internet sequence, The Ba***ds of Bollywood.
Former Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) chief Sameer Wankhede has dragged Aryan Khan and Shah Rukh Khan to courtroom in a defamation case. Wankhede claims that Aryan’s debut internet sequence, the Ba***ds of Bollywood, which launched on Netflix final week, defames him by modelling a personality on him. Nevertheless, defamation is just not the one cost the previous NCB official is levelling in opposition to the present and its makers. He additionally contends that the present has ‘insulted nationwide honour’.
Sameer Wankhede sues Aryan Khan and SRK
The Ba***ds of Bollywood is a satire on Bollywood. In episode 1, an unnamed narcotics cop is proven arresting an actor from exterior a celebration for merely standing subsequent to somebody smoking marijuana. Viewers famous that the actor bore bodily resemblance to Wankhede, who infamously arrested the present’s creator Aryan Khan on drug fees in 2021. Aryan was finally cleared of all fees, and Wankhede is beneath investigation.
In his swimsuit, Wankhede alleges, “This sequence disseminates a deceptive and destructive portrayal of anti-drug enforcement companies, thereby eroding public confidence in legislation enforcement establishments.” He has sought reduction within the nature of a everlasting and obligatory injunction, declaration, and damages in opposition to the manufacturing home, Netflix and others, including that he has been aggrieved by a false, malicious, and defamatory video. The swimsuit has been filed in opposition to Purple Chillies Leisure Pvt Ltd., the manufacturing home owned by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and his spouse, Gauri Khan. Purple Chillies has produced the present, which marks Aryan’s maiden foray into filmmaking.
‘The present insults nationwide honour’
Nevertheless, defamation is barely a part of the case in opposition to the present. Wankhede has additionally pointed to a later occasion in the identical scene the place the cop sits in his van and says ‘Satyamev Jayate’, to which one other character first offers him a thumbs up, earlier than altering it to a center finger salute (a gesture displaying disrespect or condemnation). The swimsuit asserted that the act constitutes a grave and delicate violation of the provisions of the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act, 1971, which attracts penal penalties beneath the legislation.
In his lawsuit, Sameer Wankhede has sought damages of ₹2 crore to be donated to the Tata Memorial Most cancers Hospital for the therapy of most cancers sufferers.
Neither Netflix nor Purple Chillies have reacted to the swimsuit up to now. The Delhi Excessive Court docket is predicted to listen to the matter quickly.
(With ANI inputs)
