India, Feb. 4 -- T he Delhi High Court on Tuesday allowed former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer Sameer Wankhede to approach the City Civil & Sessions Court in Dindoshi, Mumbai, regarding his defamation suit against director Aryan Khan's Netflix show Ba***ds of Bollywood (2025) over his alleged portrayal in the series. Earlier, on January 29, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav had ruled that the Delhi High Court was not the appropriate forum to decide the matter and granted Wankhede the liberty to approach a court of competent jurisdiction. "With the main contesting defendants [Red Chillies Entertainment, which produced the show], residing in Mumbai, the plaintiff (Wankhede) himself being a resident of Mumbai, and further the wrong, as per the plaintiff's own plaint, having also occurred at Mumbai. the jurisdiction to entertain the present suit lies only with the courts in Mumbai," the Court had said. Following this, Wankhede filed an application under Order VII Rule 10A of the Civil Procedure Code, which allows the court returning a plaint to fix a date of appearance in the other court where the plaint will be filed after its return. Wankhede has argued that the Netflix series was "deliberately conceptualised and executed" with the intent to malign his reputation in a "colourable and prejudicial manner," particularly while the case involving him and Aryan remains sub-judice before the Bombay High Court and the NDPS Special Court. HTC...