IRS officer and former NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede spoke to the press on Saturday to speak concerning the enhance in drug abuse within the metropolis. When requested concerning the latest defamation case he filed towards Netflix and Pink Chillies Leisure over Aryan Khan’s net collection, The Ba***ds of Bollywood, right here’s what he stated. (Additionally Learn: How suing Aryan Khan, SRK for The Ba***ds of Bollywood in Delhi damage Sameer Wankhede’s case: Why HC rejected criticism)
Sameer Wankhede on The Ba***ds of Bollywood defamation case
ANI posted a video wherein Sameer tells the press, “In Mumbai, particularly in Northern or Jap Mumbai, we have to create consciousness in public concerning the form of medicine that exist and the rise in drug consumption within the metropolis. A camp was organised right here to speak to oldsters, and I am very completely happy that I got here right here to speak concerning the authorized provisions.”
When requested about his defamation case towards The Ba***ds of Bollywood and if an try was being made to tone down this subject, he replied, “I don’t need to touch upon this. All I’m going to say is, satyameva jayate (reality alone triumphs).” By the way, a personality from the net collection, which Sameer alleged was primarily based on him, additionally says the phrases ‘satyameva jayate’.
Sameer Wankhede’s case on The Ba***ds of Bollywood staff
For the unversed, Sameer had filed a case towards Aryan, Netflix and Pink Chillies Leisure (owned by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan) over the not too long ago launched net collection The Ba***ds of Bollywood. On Friday, the Delhi Excessive Court docket heard the defamation go well with and stated, “Your plaint will not be maintainable. I’m rejecting your plaint. Had your case been that you simply had been defamed at numerous locations, together with Delhi, and that most harm occurred right here, we’d have nonetheless thought-about it.”
Sameer sought ₹2 crore in damages, which he proposed to donate to Tata Memorial Most cancers Hospital, alleging that the collection is ‘false, malicious, and defamatory’. The go well with additionally highlights a scene the place, after the character, allegedly primarily based on him, says ‘satyameva jayate’ and makes an obscene gesture. He additionally claimed that the collection was ‘intentionally conceptualised to malign’ him when circumstances involving him and Aryan had been pending in courts.
For the unversed, Sameer Wankhede was the officer who had arrested Aryan Khan in a drug case in 2021 off the coast of Mumbai. Investigation had later given Aryan a clear chit within the case. The Ba***ds of Bollywood is Aryan’s directorial debut and was launched on Netflix.