India, Dec. 25 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday quashed a criminal case registered against two senior executives of Star Entertainment Media Pvt Ltd over an alleged caste-based remark in a Marathi television serial aired more than a decade ago.

A division bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Manjusha Deshpande set aside an FIR lodged by the Wada police in Palghar district against Bhakti Apte, executive producer, and Shrabani Deodhar, programming head of the company's Marathi channel, Star Pravah.

The case stemmed from a complaint filed by an activist alleging that objectionable words referring to a scheduled caste were used in an episode of a serial broadcast on August 22, 2012. The complainant claimed that the dialogue, spoken by the...