NEW DELHI: Shah Rukh Khan’s manufacturing firm, Pink Chillies Leisure, has opposed IRS officer Sameer Wankhede’s plea within the Delhi Excessive Court docket searching for to take away the sequence The Ba***ds of Bollywood from numerous on-line platforms. On Wednesday, the corporate argued that the present is a piece of satire and accused Wankhede of discussion board buying by submitting the case in Delhi as an alternative of Mumbai, in keeping with information company PTI.
Senior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, representing Pink Chillies, informed Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav that the swimsuit has no territorial jurisdiction since each Wankhede and the corporate’s registered workplace are in Mumbai.“Merely since you really feel one thing, there can’t be a explanation for motion. Clearly the jurisdiction is Mumbai and never Delhi. That is clearly a case the place you’ve gotten come for discussion board buying,” Kaul mentioned, including that Wankhede had created a false explanation for motion in Delhi.Pink Chillies defended the sequence as a official type of creative expression and social commentary, highlighting that it touches upon points like nepotism, paparazzi tradition, adultery, and the struggles confronted by newcomers in Bollywood.Wankhede has filed a defamation swimsuit searching for Rs 2 crore in damages, which he needs donated to the Tata Memorial Most cancers Hospital. In his rejoinder, he alleged, “The defamatory content material is a well-crafted conspiracy to misuse cinematic energy for a private vendetta after which to cover behind the handy veil of ‘satire’. Subsequently, by giving the color of satire to this calculated and vindictive ‘hit job’, the defendant no.1 is being mischievous earlier than this court docket.“The officer claims the sequence, written and directed by Aryan Khan, was produced to settle private scores and retaliate towards his actions within the 2021 medication case involving Aryan Khan. Wankhede’s plea additionally states that the present portrays anti-drug enforcement businesses in a deceptive approach, which might undermine public belief in regulation enforcement.The Delhi Excessive Court docket had issued notices on October 8 to Pink Chillies Leisure, Netflix, X Corp, Google, Meta, RPSG Way of life Media, and John Doe, asking for his or her responses inside seven days.Kaul additionally identified that Wankhede typically offers media interviews discussing these issues and argued that one can not isolate a single one-minute scene from a seven-part sequence to assert defamation. Netflix’s counsel opposed the swimsuit on the listening to as properly.Moreover, Wankhede’s plea highlighted a scene by which a personality makes an obscene gesture whereas reciting Satyamev Jayate, a part of the Nationwide Emblem, which might doubtlessly violate the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act, 1971.