On Thursday, former Narcotics Management Bureau zonal officer Sameer Wankhede filed a defamation go well with towards the makers of Netflix collection The Bads of Bollywood. He’s asking for ₹2 crore in damages, citing a personality on the present who appears to be parodying him.
Nonetheless, because the character stays unnamed all through the collection, followers of the present are confused how Wankhede will show it’s about him.
Web is confused
“No however how is he going to show that is his character assist ??,” joked a fan on Twitter (X). “He would possibly’ve needed to do a cameo,” learn a remark. “They did not point out his title or something in any respect,” mentioned an individual.
Just a few are additionally pleased that the episode will result in a jucier season 2 for the present. “Aryan taking receipts to organize that explosive season 2 script,” wrote one. “Aryan is nice to troll him once more in s2,” mentioned one other individual. Aryan Khan is the author and director behind the collection. He was arrested by Wankhede in 2021 beneath expenses of medicine use.
An individual concluded, “Such poetic justice for #AryanKhan maza agaya.”
What’s Wankhede’s case?
Sameer Wankhede on Thursday filed a defamation go well with within the Delhi Excessive Courtroom towards actor Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan owned Purple Chillies Leisure and Netflix for allegedly maligning his status of their collection The Ba***ds of Bollywood
Wankhade’s plea has sought everlasting and necessary injunction, declaration and damages towards the Purple Chillies Leisure Non-public Restricted, Netflix and others, for what he alleges is “false, malicious and defamatory video” of the manufacturing home and broadcast by Netflix as a part of their tv collection.
Wankhade sought ₹2 crore in damages which he needs to to be donated to the Tata Memorial Most cancers Hospital for most cancers sufferers.
“This collection disseminates a deceptive and damaging portrayal of anti-drug enforcement companies, thereby eroding public confidence in legislation enforcement establishments,” Advocate Aditya Giri, one of many legal professionals representing Wankhade, claimed.
The plea mentioned the collection has been intentionally conceptualised and executed with the intent to malign Wankhede’s status in a colourable and prejudicial method, particularly when the case involving the officer and Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan khan is pending and sub-judice earlier than the Bombay Excessive Courtroom and the NDPS Particular Courtroom in Mumbai.
It claimed that the collection depicts a personality making an obscene gesture—particularly, displaying a center finger after the character recites the slogan “Satyamev Jayate” which is the a part of the Nationwide Emblem.
The primary level of competition appears to be the character of an ‘NCG officer’ who seems very like Wankhede and claims to be working a marketing campaign towards medicine.