Delhi HC questions Sameer Wankhede over maintainability of defamation plea against Aryan Khan’s ‘Ba***ds of Bollywood’ series

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Former NCB Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede sought Rs 2 crore successful  damages which helium  wants to to beryllium  donated to the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for crab  patients. File

Former NCB Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede sought Rs 2 crore successful damages which helium wants to to beryllium donated to the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for crab patients. File | Photo Credit: PTI

The Delhi High Court connected Friday (September 26, 2025) questioned IRS serviceman and erstwhile NCB zonal manager Sameer Wankhede implicit maintainability of his defamation suit against histrion Shahrukh Khan and his woman Gauri Khan owned Red Chillies Entertainment and Netflix for allegedly maligning his estimation successful their series 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood'.

Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav asked Mr. Wankhede's lawyer arsenic to however the plea was maintainable successful Delhi.

Senior advocator Sandeep Sethi, representing Mr. Wankhede, said the web bid is meant for crossed cities, including Delhi, and the serviceman has been defamed here. However, helium said helium would amend the plaint accordingly.

The HC granted him clip to record an amended exertion aft which it would perceive the matter.

Mr. Wankhede's plea has sought imperishable and mandatory injunction, declaration and damages against Red Chillies Entertainment Private Limited, Netflix and others, for what helium alleges is "false, malicious and defamatory video" of the accumulation location and broadcast by Netflix arsenic portion of their tv series.

Mr. Wankhede sought Rs 2 crore successful damages which helium wants to to beryllium donated to the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for crab patients.

"This bid disseminates a misleading and antagonistic portrayal of anti-drug enforcement agencies, thereby eroding nationalist assurance successful instrumentality enforcement institutions," the plea said.

The plea said the bid has been deliberately conceptualised and executed with the intent to malign Mr. Wankhede's estimation successful a colourable and prejudicial manner, particularly erstwhile the lawsuit involving the serviceman and Shahrukh Khan's lad Aryan khan is pending and sub-judice earlier the Bombay High Court and the NDPS Special Court successful Mumbai.

Published - September 26, 2025 12:10 p.m. IST

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