{"id":51822,"date":"2025-09-25T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=51822"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:16:26","slug":"sameer-wankhede-files-defamation-suit-against-red-chillies-entertainment-and-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/latest\/sameer-wankhede-files-defamation-suit-against-red-chillies-entertainment-and-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Sameer Wankhede files defamation suit against Red Chillies Entertainment and Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Wankhede\u2019s petition seeks a permanent and mandatory injunction, declaration, and damages, alleging that the series carries \u201cfalse, malicious and derogatory\u201d content produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and aired by Netflix. He has demanded compensation of \u20b92 crore, which he said he would donate to Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for the treatment of cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Aditya Giri, representing Wankhede, said, \u201cThis web series propagates a misleading and negative portrayal of anti-narcotics agencies, thereby eroding people\u2019s faith in law enforcement agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the petition, the show was aired deliberately to malign Wankhede in a \u201ccolourful and biased\u201d manner, particularly at a time when the matter concerning actor Arjun Adhikari and Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s son Aryan Khan remains pending before the Bombay High Court and the NDPS special court in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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