The Hyderabad city civil court on Tuesday granted an interim stay restraining Netflix from airing its upcoming web-series 'Bad Boy Billionaires-India' on a petition filed by B Ramalinga Raju who was convicted in the multi-crore accounting scandal of Satyam Computer Services Limited.
The chief judge of the court passed the order citing that it would invade his privacy in an unlawful manner.
Raju contended that the makers of the series cannot conclude that he is guilty. He also words like fraud, greed and so on cannot be used given the matter is pending at an appeal stage and it will infringe his rights of fair-trial.
Meanwhile, in another case The Supreme Court has rejected Netflix’s plea against a Bihar court’s order asking it to not use Sahara's Subrata Roy’s name in its show. The apex court has given go ahead to Netflix to move Patna High Court to challenge the Bihar court’s decision.