Top Bollywood producers move HC for curbs on 2 news channels

Thirty-eight leading cinema associations and production houses, including Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, Ajay Devgn Films, and those owned by Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, on Monday moved the Delhi High Court against Republic TV and Times Now and their senior editors, seeking “perpetual and permanent” injunction against them from making or publishing “irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks” against the film industry and those part of it.

The civil suit, filed via DSK Legal, is against Republic TV, its Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and Consulting Editor Pradeep Bhandari; and, Times Now, its Editor-in-Chief Rahul Shivshankar, and Times Network Group Editor, Navika Kumar. Social media platforms have also been added as parties to the case.