India, July 2 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted exemption to Bollywood director Sujoy Ghosh from personal appearance over a copyright infringement case of Kahaani 2 movie script before a Jharkhand high court.

Issuing notice on his petition to quash the case pending before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Hazaribagh, a bench of justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan, sitting during the partial court working days, sought response of the Jharkhand government and granted Ghosh exemption from personally appearing before the magistrate.

Ghosh approached the top court challenging an April 22 order of the Jharkhand high court refusing to quash the proceedings pending against him. The Kahaani 2 scriptwriter had challenged the ...