Updated on: Sept 25, 2025 05:03 PM IST
Ex NCB Officer Sameer Wankhede Has Sued Aryan Khan and Shah Rukh Khan for AlleGedly Defaming and Parodying Him in Aryan’s Web Series, The Ba *** DS of bollywood.
Former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Chief Sameer Wankhede has dragged Aryan Khan and Shah Rukh Khan to Court in a Defamation Case. Wankhede Claims that Aryan’s Debut Web Series, The Ba *** DS of Bollywood, Which Released On Netflix Last Week, Defames Him by Modelling A Character on Him. However, defamation is not the only charge the former NCB official is Levelling against the show and its makers. He Also Contends that the show has ‘insulted national honor’.
Sameer Wankhede Sues Aryan Khan and Srk
The Ba *** DS of Bollywood is a Satire on Bollywood. In Episode 1, Ann Unnamed Narcotics Cop is Shown Arresting an actor from outseide a party for merely standing next to someone smoking marijuana. Viewers noted that the actor bore physical resembly to wankhede, who infamously arrested the show’s creator aryan Khan on drug Charges in 2021. Wankhede is Under Investigation.
In his suit, wankhede alleges, “This series disseminates a Misleading and Negative Portrayal of Anti-DRUG Enforcement Agencies, thereby earroding public confidence in law enforcement.” He has sadt relieve in the nature of a permanent and mandatory injunction, declaration, and damages against the production house, netflix and others, adding that he has been aggrieved by a False, MALICIOS, and Defamatory VIDEO. The suit has been filled against red chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd., The production house ovened by bollywood star shah rukh khan and his wife, gauri khan. Red Chillies has produced the show, which marks aryan’s maiden on into filmmaking.
‘The show insults national honor’
However, defamation is only part of the case against the show. Wankhede has also pointed to a later instance in the same scheme where the cop sits in his van and say ‘satyamev jayate’, to bech ahead another Character first gives hem a thumbs, Salute (a gesture showing disrespect or condemnation). The suit asserted that the act constituted a grave and sensitive violation of the provisions of the prevention of insults to the National Honor Act, 1971, which attracts Penal Consequences Under the Law.
In his lawsuit, only wankhede has sought damages of 2 Crore to be donated to the Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer Patients.
Neither Netflix Nor Red Chillies has reacted to the suit so far. The delhi high court is expected to hear the matter song.
,With ani inputs,
