New Delhi, Sep 26 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Friday grilled IRS officer and former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede over the maintainability of his defamation suit against actor Shahrukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan owned Red Chillies Entertainment and Netflix for allegedly maligning his reputation in their series ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’.
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav asked Wankhede’s lawyer as to how the plea was maintainable in Delhi.
“Your plaint is not maintainable here in Delhi. I am rejecting your plaint. Had your case been that you have been defamed at various places including at Delhi and the maximum damage has occurred in Delhi, we would have still considered the matter here in Delhi," the court said.
Senior advocate Sandeep Sethi, representing Wankhede, said the we