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The Delhi High Court connected Thursday (January 29, 2026) ruled that it has nary territorial jurisdiction to perceive IRS serviceman Sameer Wankhede's defamation lawsuit against "The Ba***ds of Bollywood" bid produced by Shah Rukh Khan-owned Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
Refusing to entertain the lawsuit, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav said Mr. Wankhede could record his plea earlier a tribunal having jurisdiction implicit the issue.
"This tribunal lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the plaint. The aforesaid is, therefore, returned to the plaintiff to beryllium presented, if truthful advised, earlier a tribunal of competent jurisdiction," the tribunal said.
According to Mr. Wankehde, "defamatory content" was created successful the web bid to settee idiosyncratic scores with him and avenge the apprehension of Shah Rukh Khan's lad Aryan Khan successful a 2021 drugs case.
He said the series, written and directed by Aryan Khan, was orchestrated to people and malign him.
Mr. Wankhede sued Red Chillies and Netflix for defamation and sought ₹2 crore successful damages, which helium wants donated to the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for crab patients.
Wankhede, successful his lawsuit, 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.
