India, Jan. 30 -- T he Delhi High Court on Thursday declined to entertain IRS officer Sameer Wankhede's defamation suit against the Netflix web series The Ba***ds of Bollywood, directed by Aryan Khan and produced by his father Shah Rukh Khan-owned Red Chillies Entertainment. In September 2025, Wankhede had moved the court alleging that a character resembling him in the series mocks the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). However, in the hearing, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav ruled that the HC lacks territorial jurisdiction to hear the matter, adding that Wankhede was free to pursue the case before a court with competent jurisdiction. Reacting to the order, Wankhede clarified that the case has not been dismissed: "I have been asked to approach a proper forum. Let the order be uploaded, then I will take a call on when to do it. This has not demotivated me at all; it's just an order to approach the appropriate court. I will do the needful and keep fighting for justice." In his petition, Wankhede had alleged that the portrayal was intended to "settle personal scores" over his role in the 2021 drug-case arrest of Aryan while serving as Zonal Director of the NCB. It also flagged a scene in which a character makes an obscene gesture after reciting 'Satyamev Jayate', which he claimed amounts to a violation of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. Wankhede sued the makers for defamation, seeking Rs.2 crore in damages, which he said would be donated....