Ex-NCB Officer Sameer Wankhede Files Defamation Suit Against Netflix and SRK's Red Chillies Entertainment

Sameer Wankhede, the former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director who was central in the 2021 cruise ship drug case involving Aryan Khan, has filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court against the makers of the Netflix series The Ba**ds of Bollywood.

Wankhede’s petition names Red Chillies Entertainment, owned by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan, Netflix, and several other entities, alleging that the series portrays him in a “false, malicious, and defamatory” light. He claims the content maligns anti-drug enforcement agencies, thereby undermining public confidence in such institutions.

Among the disputed scenes is one where a character utters the national slogan “Satyamev J

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