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Hyderabad civil court passed a restraining Netflix from releasing its series Bad Boy Billionaires: India. The Petition was filed by B Ramalinga Raju. He is amonst one who is featured in this webseries along with Vijay Mallya, Mehul Choksi and Subrata Roy.
The documentary is all about Indian greatest financial frauds follows the lives of the billionaires who have all been convicted of financial fraud. Raju is amonst one of the billionaire who is accused of financial frauds. Raju was convicted in the Satyam scam in 2015.
Raju in his petition said that the documentary would invade his privacy in an unlawful manner and would harm his reputation. Raju, who was sentenced to seven years in prison, is currently out on bail that was granted in 2018.
The series was supposed to release on the Netflix on September 2.
Raju isn’t the only one who has gone to court over this web series. Mehul Choksi, who is accused in a scam of nearly $2 billion PNB scam had approached the Delhi High Court to postpone the release of the documentary. , Both Mallya and Modi were declared Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEOs) in January and December 2019 respectively for fraud and money laundering.
On August 26, the court had asked Netflix if they could hold a pre-screening for Choksi. PTI reported that Choksi had claimed in his petition that he had been falsely accused of various crimes in India and was presently under investigation or standing trial by and before various authorities and/or courts.
Netflix Inc told the court that series followed many people like Nirav Modi and only two minutes had been devoted to Choksi.
Previously a Bihar court restrained the series from using the name of Subrata Roy, who is accused of a fraud of $4 billion.
