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The Delhi High Court connected Thursday granted clip to IRS serviceman Sameer Wankhede, histrion Shah Rukh Khan-owned Red Chillies Entertainment and OTT level Netflix to record their written submissions successful a defamation suit relating to the bid The Ba***ds of Bollywood.
Wankhede has filed a defamation suit against Red Chillies and Netflix for allegedly maligning his estimation successful their bid and has besides sought Rs 2 crore successful damages, which helium wants donated to the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for crab patients.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav asked the parties to record their written submissions and listed the substance for proceeding connected November 10.
On October 8, the precocious tribunal issued notices and summons to defendants Red Chillies Entertainment Private Limited, Netflix, X, Google LLC, Meta Platforms, RPSG Lifestyle Media Private Limited and John Doe successful the defamation suit and asked them to record their replies wrong 7 days.
As an interim relief, Wankhede has besides sought to instrumentality down the alleged defamatory contented from respective websites.
The plea submitted that the bid disseminates a misleading and antagonistic portrayal of anti-drug enforcement agencies, thereby eroding nationalist assurance successful instrumentality enforcement institutions.
It said the bid has been deliberately conceptualised and executed with the intent to malign Wankhede's estimation successful a colourable and prejudicial manner, particularly erstwhile the lawsuit involving the serviceman and Shah Rukh Khan's lad Aryan Khan is pending and sub judice earlier the Bombay High Court and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Special Court successful Mumbai.
The suit was opposed by the counsel for Netflix. The plea claimed that the bid depicts a quality making an obscene motion -- specifically, showing a mediate digit -- aft the quality recites the slogan "Satyamev Jayate", which is portion of the National Emblem.
This enactment constitutes a sedate and delicate usurpation of the provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, which attracts penal consequences nether law, it said.
The plea said the contented of the bid is successful contravention of assorted provisions of the Information Technology Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), arsenic it seeks to outrage nationalist sentiment done the usage of obscene and violative material.
