Bollywood Salman Khan has launched a defamation suit against his Panvel farmhouse neighbour, Ketan Kakkad. Through his lawyer, the ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ actor has accused his next-door neighbour of unnecessarily dragging his religious identity and defaming him in public. The legal team for the Bollywood star has asked the court to ban or block all offensive information directed at him on social media networks.
For the uninitiated, Salman Khan, who lives in Mumbai’s suburbs, owns a farmhouse in Panvel, Maharashtra’s Raigad district. Ketan, who lives in Mumbai, owns a hillside parcel near to Salman Khan’s estate. According to Salman’s lawsuit, Ketan made defamatory remarks against him while communicating with a YouTuber.
Salman has launched a civil claim, according to Live Law, alleging that Ketan Kakkad defamed him during a YouTube interview.
According to the newspaper, actor’s lawyer, Pradeep Gandhi, read out portions of the Ketan Kakkad’s posts and interviews in front of the court on Thursday. He claimed that Ketan accused the actor of being “a front for the D Gang, commenting on his religious identity and implying that he was connected to the ruling party at the central and state level, levelling allegations of child trafficking, and further alleging that the bodies of film stars are buried in his farmhouse,” according to him.
Salman, through his lawyer, responded by claiming, “All of these charges are a fiction of the defendant’s imagination without appropriate proof. Why are you destroying my personal character in a property dispute? Why are you putting religion into this? My mother is Hindu, my father is Muslim, and both of my brothers are Hindu. All festivals are observed by us.”
He went on to say, “To make such accusations, you are an educated person, not a Gunda-chhap. Nowadays, the easiest thing to do is get a group of people, log into social media, and vent your rage.” He went on to say that he had no desire to enter politics.
Meanwhile, Salman Khan has named social media behemoths Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as search engine behemoth Google, as defendants in the lawsuit, requesting that they restrict and remove ‘defamatory content’ from their platforms. Salman is seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting Ketan from posting or distributing defamatory material about him or his farmhouse.
