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Sameer Wankhede had filed a defamation lawsuit against the makers of Aryan Khan's amusement 'The B***ds Of Bollywood'. Wankhede had primitively moved the Delhi High Court claiming that a quality shown successful Episode 1 of the Netflix bid ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’, produced by Red Chillies Entertainment, was a defamatory and thinly veiled portrayal of him.
The show, according to Wankhede, draws from events surrounding the Aryan Khan drugs case.As per the latest update connected the matter, Delhi High Court has allowed IRS serviceman Sameer Wankhede to prosecute his defamation lawsuit against 'The Ba***ds Of Bollywood' successful the Mumbai court, aft concluding that it does not person territorial jurisdiction to perceive the matter.The lawsuit was heard by Justice Vikas Mahajan, who granted Wankhede’s petition to retreat the suit from Delhi and record it earlier a competent tribunal successful Mumbai.
The tribunal directed each parties to look earlier the Mumbai tribunal connected February 12, the day connected which Wankhede intends to institute the proceedings afresh.During the hearing, Wankhede’s counsel referred to an earlier bid dated January 29 passed by Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, nether which the plaint had been returned nether the Civil Procedure Code with liberty to attack the due forum. Following that order, Wankhede moved an exertion nether Order VII Rule 10A of the CPC seeking facilitation to displacement the lawsuit to Mumbai.
Allowing the plea, the tribunal noted that each procedural requirements had been fulfilled and formally paved the mode for the substance to beryllium taken up by the City Civil Court successful Mumbai.He had sought directions for the removal oregon restraint of definite scenes, arguing that the portrayal harmed his estimation and dignity. Wankhede contended that the character’s appearance, behaviour and mannerisms intimately resembled him and had been wide identified arsenic specified successful media coverage.The defendants, however, raised a preliminary objection connected jurisdiction, arguing that the lawsuit ought to person been filed successful Mumbai since Wankhede resides determination and Red Chillies Entertainment’s registered bureau is besides based successful the city. They besides maintained that the bid is fictional and satirical successful quality and does not picture the Cordelia cruise raid.Accepting these arguments, Justice Kaurav had earlier ruled that the Delhi High Court could not entertain the suit and directed that the plaint beryllium returned. With the latest order, that determination has present been fixed procedural effect, clearing the way for Wankhede to proceed his ineligible situation successful Mumbai.
