The IRS officer Sameer Wankhede claims the collection directed by Aryan Khan, produced by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan–owned Red Chillies and streamed on Netflix, falsely maligns him and discredits anti-drug enforcement businesses. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu, PTI
Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav issued summons to defendants which embody the homeowners of Red Chillies, X, Google, Meta Platforms, and requested them to file their replies inside seven days. It posted the matter for additional listening to on October 30, 2025.
The Court, nonetheless, didn’t go any interim order at this stage on Mr. Wankhede’s software looking for to take down the a number of alleged defamatory contents from a number of web sites and social media platforms.
“It may have wider ramifications,” the Court remarked as senior advocate Sandeep Sethi, Mr. Wankhede’s lawyer, urged that individuals are “trolling” his consumer on-line as regards to this collection.
“The nature of the accusation being made is stunning,” Mr. Sethi mentioned.
The Judge famous that “there’s trigger in your favour to strategy the court docket, however there are some processes which we have to observe”.
The IRS officer, who led the Narcotics Control Bureau’s 2021 raid that noticed actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan arrested in a cruise ship drug case, claims the collection directed by Aryan Khan, produced by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan–owned Red Chillies and streamed on Netflix, falsely maligns him and discredits anti-drug enforcement businesses. He has sought ₹2 crore in damages and pledged to donate to Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital.
Aryan Khan was cleared of all fees by the NCB later in 2022 within the cruise ship drug case, saying “no medication had been discovered on Aryan Khan”.
Mr. Wankhede’s plea mentioned, “This collection disseminates a deceptive and unfavorable portrayal of anti-drug enforcement businesses, thereby eroding public confidence in regulation enforcement establishments.”
It added, “The collection has been intentionally conceptualised and executed with the intent to malign Sameer Wankhede’s fame in a colourable and prejudicial method”.
“Furthermore, the collection, inter alia, depicts a personality making an obscene gesture—particularly, displaying a center finger after the character recites the slogan “Satyamev Jayate” which is the a part of the National Emblem. This act constitutes a grave and delicate violation of the provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, which attracts penal penalties underneath regulation,” it added.
Additionally the plea said that the content material of the collection is in contravention of varied provisions of the Information Technology Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), because it seeks to outrage nationwide sentiment by the usage of obscene and offensive materials.
Published – October 08, 2025 12:53 pm IST
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