New Delhi: Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede has filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court against Red Chillies Entertainment, owned by actors Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan, and Netflix over the web series The Ba*ds of Bollywood.
Wankhede’s petition seeks a permanent and mandatory injunction, declaration, and damages, alleging that the series carries “false, malicious and derogatory” content produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and aired by Netflix. He has demanded compensation of ₹2 crore, which he said he would donate to Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for the treatment of cancer patients.
Advocate Aditya Giri, representing Wankhede, said, “This web series propagates a misleading and negative portrayal of anti-narcotics agencies, thereby eroding people’s faith in law enforcement agencies.”
According to the petition, the show was aired deliberately to malign Wankhede in a “colourful and biased” manner, particularly at a time when the matter concerning actor Arjun Adhikari and Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan remains pending before the Bombay High Court and the NDPS special court in Mumbai.
