Actor Salman Khan has filed a defamation suit before the Mumbai City Civil Court against a Non-Resident Indian named Ketan Kakkad and others alleging that they made derogatory remarks against him and his family over an unsuccessful land sale transaction.
According to Khan’s suit, Kakkad had attempted to purchase a plot of land beside the actor’s farmhouse in Panvel in Raigad district of Maharashtra but the authorities cancelled the transaction on the ground that it was illegal. Following this, Kakkad allegedly raised false and baseless accusations that Khan and his family members were behind the failed transaction.
The lawsuit further states that the actor’s team has recently come across multiple videos uploaded on the social media accounts of the defendants related to Khan’s Panvel farmhouse and adds that the derogatory comments used against Khan in these do not have a shred of truth in them.
During a hearing of the case on Friday, Khan also filed an application for urgent relief seeking to block, suspend or withdraw the social media accounts where the alleged derogatory content has been shared. The actor’s lawyer, Pradeep Gandhy, stated that false, disparaging and defamatory allegations were made in the videos, posts and tweets, causing harm and loss to Khan, his family members and his business ventures.
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Along with Kakkad, the suit also names other individuals as well as social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube and their Indian counterparts.
Opposing the suit, advocate Abha Singh, who was appearing for Kakkad, stated that the defendants were served the papers only on Thursday evening. She thus sought more time to go through the complaint in order to file an appropriate response to the suit.
Granting the requested time to Kakkad and others to file their replies in the case, the court scheduled the matter for hearing on January 20.