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The Delhi Excessive Court docket has issued summons to Shah Rukh Khan’s Pink Chillies Leisure and Netflix over Aryan Khan’s present, The Ba***ds of Bollywood.
Former NCB officer Sameer Wankhede claimed within the Delhi Excessive Court docket that he, his spouse, and his sister have gotten the targets of trolling after the discharge of Aryan Khan’s net sequence, The Ba***ds of Bollywood. Wankhede has sued the present and Netflix for defamation over what he claims is a personality that parodies him.
Delhi HC points summons to Pink Chillies, Netflix
On Wednesday, after the listening to, the Delhi Excessive Court docket issued discover to Pink Chillies Leisure and Netflix over former Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede’s go well with alleging defamation of their net sequence, The Ba***ds of Bollywood. The sequence has been created and directed by Aryan Khan, son of famous person Shah Rukh Khan.
Wankhede had filed his go well with within the Delhi Excessive Court docket final month, following which the court docket had dismissed his plea, calling it ‘not maintainable’. After the previous NCB officer filed an amended go well with, the court docket issued summons to the defendants. “We respect that there’s trigger in your favour to method this court docket however there’s a course of to be adopted,” the court docket mentioned.
Wankhede questions trolling
Showing for Wankhede, senior advocate Sandeep Sethi mentioned, “In reference to the sequence, there are posts trolling me, my spouse and my sister. Ex facie defamatory. It is stunning. They (defendants) are certainly not defending these posts.”
The Ba***ds of Bollywood, produced by Shah Rukh’s Pink Chillies, launched on Netflix final month. A satire on the Hindi movie trade, the present incorporates a ‘plain-clothed cop’, who raids a Bollywood get together and detains an actor there regardless that he isn’t in possession of something narcotic. After the present’s launch, many viewers mentioned that the cop bore a resemblance to Wankhede, a former NCB officer. In his go well with, Wankhede claims the present has been “intentionally conceptualised and executed” with the intent to malign his fame in a “colourable and prejudicial method”.
Sameer Wankhede and Aryan Khan’s historical past
Wankhede was the officer who had arrested Aryan Khan in 2021 after a raid on a cruise ship. Aryan spent three weeks in jail, however later all prices had been dropped towards him. The Ba***ds of Bollywood marks his maiden foray into showbiz.
