The Bombay Excessive Courtroom has censured actor Kamal Rashik Khan for his controversial and defamatory tweets in opposition to producer Vashu Bhagnani, his household, enterprise, and his career in addition to all his initiatives.
KRK, as Khan prefers calling himself, has been barred by the courtroom from placing out any additional tweets in opposition to Bhagnani and his enterprise pursuits until the pendency of the Rs. 1 crore defamation swimsuit filed by the producer for defamatory, “slanderous”, and “distasteful” statements in addition to “patently false allegations” on KRK’s Twitter and YouTube accounts.
As per a courtroom order, an injunction has been issued, pending the ultimate disposal of the swimsuit, that in easy phrases, prohibits “the defendant from publishing, circulating or repeating the allegations and tweets and/or making, publishing, circulating and/or speaking to the general public any defamatory/slanderous feedback and/or statements in opposition to the plaintiff and/or his household and/or his enterprise, career and/or his initiatives”.
Ameet Naik of Naik Naik and Firm, who represented Bhagnani within the case, mentioned in a press release: “Social media is a really highly effective instrument, which on many events is misused to defame reputed individuals. Courts have repeatedly deprecated such misuse. That is one more event the place the Hon’ble Bombay Excessive Courtroom has handed an order restraining Kamaal Khan from making slanderous and defamatory remarks in opposition to Mr. Vashu Bhagnani, his relations, his enterprise, and his initiatives. That is the third order of Bombay Excessive Courtroom in opposition to Mr. Khan in succession.”
After listening to the matter at size, the courtroom noticed that the tweets will not be within the nature of criticism given by a movie critic, which is opposite to the defence of KRK, who additionally features as a movie critic, and are within the nature of great defamatory and slanderous remarks made in opposition to Bhagnani, his relations, his enterprise, career and his initiatives.
The courtroom’s actions got here quickly after KRK made gentle of the swimsuit and put out a contemporary sequence of slanderous tweets in opposition to the Bhagnanis. The producer was represented in courtroom by advocates Ameet Naik,Virendra Tulzapurkar, Rashmin Khandekar, and Madhu Gadodia.
