The Delhi High Court reserved its order on a plea by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede seeking an interim injunction on the series The Ba***ds of Bollywood on Tuesday. Wankhede earlier sought that the series, produced by Shah Rukh Khan-owned Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd, was allegedly defamatory, and hence be taken down from several websites.

Court reserves order on Sameer Wankhede`s plea

After hearing all the parties in the matter, Justice Purushaindra Kaurav framed two questions to be decided while reserving the order on the interim plea. The questions are whether the suit is maintainable in Delhi and secondly whether the impugned depiction, when viewed as a whole in the context, prima facie crosses the threshold and turns from protected artistic expression into actionable harm to the plaintiff`s reputation.