Sameer Wankhede and Aryan Khan are again within the highlight, this time over “The Ba***ds of Bollywood”. The previous Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) zonal director has moved the Delhi excessive courtroom with a defamation swimsuit, looking for everlasting and necessary injunctions towards the Netflix sequence and its makers, together with Pink Chillies Leisure. The present was co-written and directed by celebrity Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, who was arrested by Sameer Wankhede throughout a high-profile raid on a cruise ship occasion in October 2021.

Within the defamation swimsuit, Wankhede has sought ₹2 crore as damages to be donated to the Tata Memorial Most cancers Hospital, alleging the sequence had been intentionally conceptualised and executed to malign his repute in a colourable and prejudicial method.

Listed here are 5 factors on ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’ controversy:

1. In keeping with Sameer Wankhede, the sequence The Ba***ds of Bollywood disseminates a deceptive and destructive portrayal of anti-drug enforcement companies.
2. “[The] sequence depicts a personality making an obscene gesture—particularly, exhibiting a center finger after the character recites the slogan ‘Satyamev Jayate’, which is a part of the Nationwide Emblem. This act constitutes a grave and delicate violation of the provisions of the Prevention of Insults to Nationwide Honour Act, 1971, which attracts penal penalties underneath legislation,” the swimsuit stated.
3. Wankhede, an IRS officer, has made Gauri Khan and Shah Rukh Khan’s Pink Chillies Leisure Restricted, Netflix, X, and Google as events to the swimsuit. He stated the sequence outraged nationwide sentiment by way of the usage of obscene and offensive materials.
4. In his plea, Wankhede stated the sequence has been intentionally conceptualised and executed with the intent to malign his repute in a colourable and prejudicial method, particularly when the case involving the officer and Aryan Khan is pending and sub-judice earlier than the Bombay excessive courtroom and the NDPS Particular Court docket in Mumbai.
5. The plea added that the content material of the sequence is in contravention of assorted provisions of the Data Expertise Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), because it seeks to outrage nationwide sentiment by way of the usage of obscene and offensive materials.

Aryan Khan’s arrest

Aryan Khan was arrested after Wankhede raided the yacht Cordelia in Mumbai in October 2021. The NCB in 2022 exonerated Khan and 5 others because it filed a cost sheet towards 14 folks within the case underneath the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

A Particular Investigation Crew (SIT) of NCB discovered no proof that Aryan Khan was half of a bigger drug conspiracy or a global trafficking syndicate, and that there have been a number of irregularities within the raid throughout which he was arrested.

Wankhede, who was repatriated to his father or mother cadre, confronted a probe for allegedly demanding a ₹25 crore bribe from Shah Rukh Khan.

(With inputs from Shruti Kakkar in New Delhi)