MUMBAI, Oct. 11 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a Rs.100-crore defamation suit filed by actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui against his brother, Shamasuddin Siddiqui, and his ex-wife, Anjana Pandey, for allegedly misappropriating Rs.21 crore from his bank accounts and defaming him in the media. A single-judge bench of justice Jitendra Jain dismissed the suit since the actor and his lawyer were not present in court to take it forward. The case dates back to 2008, when Siddiqui appointed his brother, Shamasuddin Siddiqui, as his manager to handle his bank accounts, file his income tax returns, and pay other taxes and duties. However, Nawazuddin alleged that, over time, Shamasuddin bought joint properties in both their names by misappropriating funds from the former's bank accounts. While Shamasuddin informed Nawazuddin that the properties were bought in his name, the documents told a different story, the petition said. When Nawazuddin questioned his brother about this, Shamasuddin allegedly instigated the actor's ex-wife, Pandey, to file a false case against him. Subsequently, several "false applications and FIRs" were filed against Nawazuddin, over allegations like rape and cheating, his petition said. The actor also claimed that before he and Pandey got married, he was told that she was a Muslim and unmarried, but he later found out that she was a Hindu and already married to someone else. Nawazuddin further alleged that his brother and ex-wife did all this to defraud him. "They have misappropriated more than Rs.21 crore from the account of the plaintiff. He was shocked to find out that if people from his own family are of such nature, then who can he trust," the petition said. It added that his brother had also failed to file his income tax returns and pay the necessary Goods and Services Tax (GST), resulting in dues of Rs.37 crore. "The plaintiff is in a very dangerous position in his life, where he has developed trauma and depression. He is not getting any new films because of this negative atmosphere being created by his own family," the petition added. Advocates Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh, Snigdha Khandelwal, and Farid Shaikh, representing Shamasuddin, said that Nawazuddin's whole case was baseless and there were no justified claims....