Delhi Excessive Courtroom has dismissed Sameer Wankhede’s go well with in search of instructions to Shah Rukh Khan Crimson Chillies Leisure and Netflix to take down sure content material from the collection Ba***ds of Bollywood. It stated that it doesn’t have the jurisdiction to listen to the identical.
The courtroom had earlier reserved its order on Sameer Wankhede’s plea in search of interim reduction, during which he requested for instructions to Shah Rukh Khan’s manufacturing banner Crimson Chillies Leisure and streaming platform Netflix to take away sure scenes from the collection.
Wankhede, a former Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) officer, has claimed that components of the present are defamatory and aimed toward tarnishing his status.
His go well with particularly considerations Episode 1, between 32:02 and 33:50, the place a personality is depicted who Wankhede alleges bears a placing resemblance to him by way of appears to be like, behaviour and mannerisms.
The Netflix collection has been created, co-written and directed by Aryan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan’s son. Aryan was arrested by Wankhede in the course of the 2021 NCB raid on a cruise ship, although he and 5 others had been later cleared by the company in 2022.
Crimson Chillies and Netflix opposed the plea, arguing that the Delhi Excessive Courtroom doesn’t have territorial jurisdiction within the matter. Senior advocates Neeraj Kishan Kaul (for Crimson Chillies) and Rajiv Nayyar (for Netflix) submitted that the go well with must have been filed in Mumbai, since each Wankhede’s residence and Crimson Chillies’ registered workplace are situated there.
They additional maintained that the collection is a fictional, satirical story set throughout a Bollywood success celebration and doesn’t recreate the Cordelia cruise raid. Netflix additionally argued that the truth that Aryan Khan directed the present—regardless of his previous interplay with Wankhede—doesn’t point out malice or warrant the elimination of content material.
Representing Wankhede, senior advocate Jai Sai Deepak contended that the case was maintainable in Delhi because the alleged defamation had its main impression within the capital. He identified that departmental proceedings towards Wankhede are based mostly in Delhi, a number of media interactions happened within the metropolis after the collection was launched, and each Crimson Chillies and Netflix undertook in depth promotional actions in Delhi.
Deepak additionally claimed that the actor enjoying the character had acknowledged portraying Wankhede. He added that media experiences had independently recognized the character as Wankhede and argued that the depiction forged him in a detrimental mild, inflicting reputational harm.